https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=389032 After the 2015 amendment to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, the court's role at the Section 11 appointment stage is confined to verifying the existence of an arbitration agreement. A limitation objection cannot be used to refuse appointment of an arbitrator, because questions of limitation are treated as jurisdictional and mixed questions of fact and law that fall within the arbitral tribunal's competence under Section 16. The pre-reference court no longer undertakes wider threshold scrutiny of whether a claim is dead or time-barred. The proper course is for the arbitral tribunal to decide limitation and related jurisdictional objections. en-us Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 28 Nov 2019 17:39:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=389032 After the 2015 amendment to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, the court's role at the Section 11 appointment stage is confined to verifying the existence of an arbitration agreement. A limitation objection cannot be used to refuse appointment of an arbitrator, because questions of limitation are treated as jurisdictional and mixed questions of fact and law that fall within the arbitral tribunal's competence under Section 16. The pre-reference court no longer undertakes wider threshold scrutiny of whether a claim is dead or time-barred. The proper course is for the arbitral tribunal to decide limitation and related jurisdictional objections. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=389032