https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287033 Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 requires an arbitration agreement, a court action on a covered dispute, and a timely application before the first statement on the substance of the dispute. Even where those formal conditions were treated as met, a party that earlier refused arbitration and asserted that the dispute was not arbitrable could not later compel reference to arbitration after the other side had sued. The court applied the principles of waiver, estoppel, and approbation and reprobation to bar reliance on the abandoned contractual remedy, and upheld rejection of the Section 8 application. en-us Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:21:33 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287033 Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 requires an arbitration agreement, a court action on a covered dispute, and a timely application before the first statement on the substance of the dispute. Even where those formal conditions were treated as met, a party that earlier refused arbitration and asserted that the dispute was not arbitrable could not later compel reference to arbitration after the other side had sued. The court applied the principles of waiver, estoppel, and approbation and reprobation to bar reliance on the abandoned contractual remedy, and upheld rejection of the Section 8 application. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287033