https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196973 A party that elected to pursue the same dispute through a civil suit and allowed that suit to proceed to dismissal could not later invoke the arbitration clause under Section 20 of the Jammu and Kashmir Arbitration Act for the same matter. The High Court noted that civil court jurisdiction under Section 9 CPC is preserved unless expressly barred, and the mere existence of an arbitration agreement does not automatically exclude that jurisdiction. On those facts, the Section 20 application was held not maintainable. en-us Wed, 14 Jul 1971 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:12:31 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196973 A party that elected to pursue the same dispute through a civil suit and allowed that suit to proceed to dismissal could not later invoke the arbitration clause under Section 20 of the Jammu and Kashmir Arbitration Act for the same matter. The High Court noted that civil court jurisdiction under Section 9 CPC is preserved unless expressly barred, and the mere existence of an arbitration agreement does not automatically exclude that jurisdiction. On those facts, the Section 20 application was held not maintainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 14 Jul 1971 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196973