https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187285 A judicial authority must refer parties to arbitration under Section 45 where a valid arbitration agreement exists and no statutory disqualification is shown. An application filed before any first statement on the substance of the dispute was held timely, and procedural objections were cured by ratification. The arbitration clause also bound non-signatory petitioners because their claims were directly connected to the shareholders' agreement and could not be meaningfully separated from the signatories' claims. Disputes framed as oppression and mismanagement under Sections 397, 398 and 402 were still referable to arbitration because the controversy arose from the agreement and no separate non-arbitrable dispute justified refusal of reference. en-us Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:34:49 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187285 A judicial authority must refer parties to arbitration under Section 45 where a valid arbitration agreement exists and no statutory disqualification is shown. An application filed before any first statement on the substance of the dispute was held timely, and procedural objections were cured by ratification. The arbitration clause also bound non-signatory petitioners because their claims were directly connected to the shareholders' agreement and could not be meaningfully separated from the signatories' claims. Disputes framed as oppression and mismanagement under Sections 397, 398 and 402 were still referable to arbitration because the controversy arose from the agreement and no separate non-arbitrable dispute justified refusal of reference. Case-Laws Companies Law Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187285