https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287784 A contractual clause may amount to an arbitration agreement if, on a fair reading, it shows an intention to refer present or future disputes to a named authority for a final and binding decision. The absence of the words "arbitration" or "arbitrator" is not decisive; the controlling test is the parties' intention gathered from the language of the clause. Because clause 13 referred disputes to the Superintending Engineer and made that decision final, it was treated as an arbitration agreement and the challenge to appointment of an arbitrator failed. en-us Thu, 14 Sep 1989 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 02 May 2020 13:53:14 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287784 A contractual clause may amount to an arbitration agreement if, on a fair reading, it shows an intention to refer present or future disputes to a named authority for a final and binding decision. The absence of the words "arbitration" or "arbitrator" is not decisive; the controlling test is the parties' intention gathered from the language of the clause. Because clause 13 referred disputes to the Superintending Engineer and made that decision final, it was treated as an arbitration agreement and the challenge to appointment of an arbitrator failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 14 Sep 1989 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287784