https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=105930 A contractual or institutional determination of the place of arbitration, made under the parties' agreed mechanism, is not an arbitral award or interim award when it does not decide any substantive dispute or claim. The agreement and section 20 recognised party autonomy to fix the venue through an authorised process, and that machinery decision merely regulated the conduct of arbitration. Because it was not a judicial determination of rights on the merits, it was not amenable to challenge under section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. en-us Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:18:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=105930 A contractual or institutional determination of the place of arbitration, made under the parties' agreed mechanism, is not an arbitral award or interim award when it does not decide any substantive dispute or claim. The agreement and section 20 recognised party autonomy to fix the venue through an authorised process, and that machinery decision merely regulated the conduct of arbitration. Because it was not a judicial determination of rights on the merits, it was not amenable to challenge under section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. Case-Laws Companies Law Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=105930