https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307891 A contractual clause extending arbitration to statutory modifications and re-enactments was treated as sufficient party agreement for the amended arbitration regime to apply to pending proceedings, so no fresh post-amendment consent was required. Once the 2015 Amendment Act applied, the amended disqualification rule barred a serving employee of a party from acting as arbitrator. A serving General Manager of the respondent was therefore ineligible, the unilateral appointment could not continue, and the court appointed an independent sole arbitrator to take the disputes forward from the stage already reached. en-us Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 16 May 2023 08:34:46 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307891 A contractual clause extending arbitration to statutory modifications and re-enactments was treated as sufficient party agreement for the amended arbitration regime to apply to pending proceedings, so no fresh post-amendment consent was required. Once the 2015 Amendment Act applied, the amended disqualification rule barred a serving employee of a party from acting as arbitrator. A serving General Manager of the respondent was therefore ineligible, the unilateral appointment could not continue, and the court appointed an independent sole arbitrator to take the disputes forward from the stage already reached. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307891