https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200635 A tribunal's rejection of counterclaims as already settled by a memorandum of meeting, not maintainable, or time-barred is an adjudication on the merits and does not amount to acceptance of a jurisdictional plea under Section 16 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. A direct appeal under Section 37(2)(a) lies only where the tribunal accepts that it lacks jurisdiction or is acting in excess of authority and refuses to proceed further. On that basis, the article states that such a challenge would ordinarily have to be pursued under Section 34, not by direct appeal. en-us Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 10:14:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200635 A tribunal's rejection of counterclaims as already settled by a memorandum of meeting, not maintainable, or time-barred is an adjudication on the merits and does not amount to acceptance of a jurisdictional plea under Section 16 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. A direct appeal under Section 37(2)(a) lies only where the tribunal accepts that it lacks jurisdiction or is acting in excess of authority and refuses to proceed further. On that basis, the article states that such a challenge would ordinarily have to be pursued under Section 34, not by direct appeal. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200635