https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199482 Readiness and willingness under Section 34 of the Indian Arbitration Act need not be pleaded in any fixed formula if the record shows that the applicant had invoked arbitration and was prepared to proceed; contemporaneous correspondence may satisfy the statutory requirement. A railway officer is not disqualified as arbitrator merely because of departmental association or prior correspondence; bias requires a real likelihood of unfairness or a reasonable apprehension supported by material. A stay cannot be refused by adding a non-party claim or a consequential prayer where the plaint arises from a single cause of action and the real controversy falls within the arbitration agreement. en-us Tue, 17 Jul 1973 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:42:42 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199482 Readiness and willingness under Section 34 of the Indian Arbitration Act need not be pleaded in any fixed formula if the record shows that the applicant had invoked arbitration and was prepared to proceed; contemporaneous correspondence may satisfy the statutory requirement. A railway officer is not disqualified as arbitrator merely because of departmental association or prior correspondence; bias requires a real likelihood of unfairness or a reasonable apprehension supported by material. A stay cannot be refused by adding a non-party claim or a consequential prayer where the plaint arises from a single cause of action and the real controversy falls within the arbitration agreement. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 17 Jul 1973 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199482