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Fuerst Day Lawson Ltd. v. Jindal Exports Ltd.

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Reported as [2011] 11 S.C.R. 1
Bench Aftab Alam and R.M. Lodha JJ.
Decided 8 July 2011

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What the Court ordered

In the result, Civil Appeal No.36 of 2010 is allowed and the division bench order dated May 8, 2007, holding that the letters patent appeal is maintainable, is set aside.

Judgment, page 62

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Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 - ss. 50 and 49 - Whether an order, though not appealable under s. 50 of the 1996 Act, would nevertheless be subject to appeal under the relevant provision of the Letters Patent of the High Court - Held: No letters patent appeal will lie against an order which is not appealable under s.50 of the 1996 Act - Conclusion regarding exclusion of letters patent appeal arrived at in two different ways; one, so to say, on a micro basis by examining the scheme devised by ss. 49 and 50 of the 1996 Act and the radical change that it brings about in the earlier

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