Gagan Anand
Managing Partner. Legacy Law Offices, India
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Foreign arbitral awards are central to international commercial dispute resolution. Their value lies not only in adjudicatory finality but also in the predictability of enforcement. India, as a signatory to the New York Convention, has, over time, developed a largely pro-foreign award enforcement jurisprudence under Part II of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 (the ‘Arbitration Act’). Indian courts have progressively narrowed the scope of judicial interference at the enforcement stage and have consistently reiterated that enforcement proceedings are not an occasion to revisit the merits of a foreign award.
Parallel to this…