https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=161408 Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 requires a valid arbitration agreement covering the dispute before a court can refer parties to arbitration. Arbitration clauses contained in invoices for separate, unrelated transactions could not be imported into the suit transactions, because those documents did not govern the claim before the court. Mere similarity of subject matter was insufficient to satisfy Sections 7 and 8. On that basis, a reference to arbitration was held not maintainable, and the refusal to refer the suit dispute to arbitration stood. en-us Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:28:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=161408 Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 requires a valid arbitration agreement covering the dispute before a court can refer parties to arbitration. Arbitration clauses contained in invoices for separate, unrelated transactions could not be imported into the suit transactions, because those documents did not govern the claim before the court. Mere similarity of subject matter was insufficient to satisfy Sections 7 and 8. On that basis, a reference to arbitration was held not maintainable, and the refusal to refer the suit dispute to arbitration stood. Case-Laws Companies Law Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=161408