https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165131 Claims for business loss and damages for loss of reputation were held to fall within an express contractual exclusion in the arbitration agreement, so they were outside the arbitral reference and not arbitrable. A petition seeking appointment of an independent arbitrator was also found to suffer from delay and laches because no formal statement of claim had been filed before the arbitral tribunal, there was no indication that earlier correspondence was treated as such, and the claimant remained inactive for years without a satisfactory explanation. The refusal to appoint a sole arbitrator was therefore upheld. en-us Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:19:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165131 Claims for business loss and damages for loss of reputation were held to fall within an express contractual exclusion in the arbitration agreement, so they were outside the arbitral reference and not arbitrable. A petition seeking appointment of an independent arbitrator was also found to suffer from delay and laches because no formal statement of claim had been filed before the arbitral tribunal, there was no indication that earlier correspondence was treated as such, and the claimant remained inactive for years without a satisfactory explanation. The refusal to appoint a sole arbitrator was therefore upheld. Case-Laws Companies Law Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165131