Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 1051 · Decided 6 December 2023

Cox and Kings LTD. v. Sap India PVT. LTD. & ANR.

Court
Supreme Court of India
Citation
2023 INSC 1051 · [2023] 15 S.C.R. 621
Case number
ARBITRATION PETITION No. 38/2020
Decided
6 December 2023
Bench
D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, HRISHIKESH ROY, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (5-judge bench)
Case type
Arbitration
Acts & sections cited
Constitution; Arbitration Act Section 45, 7, 8, 35, 2(1)(h)

Headnote

HEADNOTES Issues for consideration: The primary issue for consideration of the present Constitution Bench of Five Judges was determination of the validity of the 'Group of companies doctrine' in 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

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