https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=364088 An arbitration clause in a cancelled MOU could not be relied on where the cancellation had attained finality and the original arbitration agreement, or a duly certified copy, was not produced. Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 was also inapplicable because several respondents and the companies were not parties to the MOU and had not adopted it. Petitions alleging oppression and mismanagement under the Companies Act were not fully arbitrable, as they involved a wider statutory field than ordinary contractual disputes. The request to refer the disputes to arbitration was therefore rejected and the refusal to arbitrate was upheld. en-us Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:13:40 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=364088 An arbitration clause in a cancelled MOU could not be relied on where the cancellation had attained finality and the original arbitration agreement, or a duly certified copy, was not produced. Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 was also inapplicable because several respondents and the companies were not parties to the MOU and had not adopted it. Petitions alleging oppression and mismanagement under the Companies Act were not fully arbitrable, as they involved a wider statutory field than ordinary contractual disputes. The request to refer the disputes to arbitration was therefore rejected and the refusal to arbitrate was upheld. Case-Laws Companies Law Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=364088