Supreme Court of India

Imax Corporation v. M/s E-city Entertainment (i) Pvt. Ltd.

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Reported as [2017] 4 S.C.R. 833
Bench S. A. Bobde and Ashok Bhushan JJ.
Decided 10 March 2017

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing observations, we find that the High E Court committed an error in observing that the seat of arbitration itself is not a decisive factor to exclude Part-I of the Arbitration Act.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996: s.34 - Petition under, maintainability before Indian courts - Jn the instant case, ICC Rules were chosen by parties to govern arbitration proceedings - International Court of Arbitration decided that London would be ·juridical seat of arbitration by virtue of Art.14(1) of ICC Rules - Held: The parties did not choose the place of arbitration - There was however an agreement to have the arbitration conducted according to the ICC rules and thus a willingness that the seat of arbitration may be outside India - In any case, the parties having agreed to have

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