To read the article on Legal500, click here. A spark that surfaced recently on social media platforms has kindled a new contentious discussion in India. Our childhood favourite ‘Bournvita’ is being examined for its claim of being a ‘health drink’ for youngsters. The row surfaced when, in April 2023, Revant Himatsingka, who was holding a prominent finance job in the US, sacrificed his lucrative salary and returned to India to spearhead a ‘nutrition revolution’. Revant, who had around 1000 followers then, uploaded a video to his social media handle targeting Bournvita and claiming that the ‘health drink’ contains dangerously excessive

To read the article on Mondaq, click here. “Delay” in infrastructure projects has become the norm, whereas timely completion of the project has become the exception. During the execution of an infrastructure project, the parties may encounter several events which delay the execution and completion of the Project. Delay in completion of projects brings with itself a host of questions left to be determined by contract administrators, courts and tribunals. At its core, lies the question – who is responsible for the delay? & consequences thereof! If the delay is occasioned by any act of the Employer (“Employer’s Delay Event”),

To read the article on Legal500, click here Contentious (/kənˈtenʃəs/) “likely to cause people to disagree” as defined in Oxford Learner’s Dictionary is the perfect representation for the concept of “Group of Companies” in arbitration, in various jurisdictions around the world. Its inception can be attributed to the provisional ruling in the notable case of Dow Chemical v. Isover Saint Gobain[1] (“Dow Chemical”), which was decided by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Tribunal in Paris, wherein it was held that “the arbitration clause expressly accepted by certain of the companies of the group should bind the other companies which, by virtue

To read the article on Mondaq, click here The Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 (Arbitration Act) is a state-of-the art legislation based on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, 1985, and enforced with the objective of providing an alternative remedy to disputes in India. Being a well thought-out piece of legislation, the Act has been designed to preclude judicial scrutiny, except in certain limited circumstances, including where the existence of the arbitration agreement in itself, is put to question. In any other case, the Act has been repeatedly upheld to hold a preceding position as compared to other

Disclaimer – This article was first published in Construction Law International in July 28, 2024 and is reproduced by kind permission of the International Bar Association, London, UK. © International Bar Association. To read the article on IBA, click here. ‘We know we are not on track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The window for meaningful change is closing, and the time to act is now.’[1] In December 2023, in their meeting at the 28th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP28), over 198 signatory countries to the Paris Agreement, 2015 (the ‘Agreement’), resolved to undertake a ‘global

To read the article on Mondaq, click here. One of the basic rules of interpretation states that no provision of a statute should be read in isolation to the other statutes and that while interpreting a law, it should be presumed that the Parliament, at the time of making such law, was well aware of the existence of all the other laws in force in India. This rule, also known as the ‘rule of harmonious construction’, being one of the cardinal principles of interpretation of statutes, recently formed the basis of the decision in the recent case of Coal India