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Cox and Kings Ltd. v. Sap India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr.

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Reported as [2023] 15 S.C.R. 621
Bench Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Hrishikesh Roy, Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra JJ.
Decided 6 December 2023

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What the Court ordered

Conclusions are as follows: I. An agreement to refer disputes to arbitration must be i n a written form, as against an oral agreement, but need not be signed by the parties.

Judgment, page 124

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Issues for consideration: The primary issue for consideration of the present Constitution Bench of Five Judges was determination of the validity of th e ‘Group of companies doctrine’ in Indian arbitration jurisprudence and its applicability to proceedings under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. Earlier, the Group of Companies doctrine had been adopted and applied in Indian arbitration jurisprudence in Chloro Controls case, where a three Judge Bench of the Supreme Court had read the said doctrine into the phrase “claiming through or under” in Section 45 of the Arbitration and

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Of those, 1 relied on · 3 followed · 5 referred to

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