https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=279787 Section 69 of the Partnership Act, 1932 bars certain claims by or on behalf of an unregistered firm, and that bar extends to arbitration proceedings. However, the statutory exception in Section 69(3)(a) preserves proceedings for dissolution of a firm and for accounts of a dissolved firm. On the stated facts, the reference to arbitration concerned dissolution and accounting, so the proceeding fell within the exception and was not hit by the registration bar. The challenge to maintainability therefore failed, and the writ petition was dismissed. en-us Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:58:32 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=279787 Section 69 of the Partnership Act, 1932 bars certain claims by or on behalf of an unregistered firm, and that bar extends to arbitration proceedings. However, the statutory exception in Section 69(3)(a) preserves proceedings for dissolution of a firm and for accounts of a dissolved firm. On the stated facts, the reference to arbitration concerned dissolution and accounting, so the proceeding fell within the exception and was not hit by the registration bar. The challenge to maintainability therefore failed, and the writ petition was dismissed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=279787