https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307705 A refund of the entire court fee is available where a dispute is settled out of court and the lis ends without judicial intervention. The distinction between a settlement reached directly by the parties and one reached through Section 89 CPC was rejected for refund purposes under Section 16 of the Court Fees Act, 1870. The operative test is whether the dispute was resolved without the court deciding the merits, not the route by which settlement occurred. On that basis, a private compromise can qualify for refund in the same way as a court-referred settlement. en-us Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 01 May 2023 13:16:27 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307705 A refund of the entire court fee is available where a dispute is settled out of court and the lis ends without judicial intervention. The distinction between a settlement reached directly by the parties and one reached through Section 89 CPC was rejected for refund purposes under Section 16 of the Court Fees Act, 1870. The operative test is whether the dispute was resolved without the court deciding the merits, not the route by which settlement occurred. On that basis, a private compromise can qualify for refund in the same way as a court-referred settlement. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307705