https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=751689 Pleadings before an arbitral tribunal under Section 23 include claim, defence, counterclaim and objections, and a rejoinder or surrejoinder filed with permission or court liberty forms part of that pleading cycle. On that basis, the tribunal was justified in treating 20.05.2023, when liberty to file surrejoinder was granted and the surrejoinder was filed, as the date of completion of pleadings for Section 29A(1). The period during which the arbitral proceedings remained stayed by judicial order was also required to be excluded while computing the statutory time limit for making the award. The challenge to the tribunal's computation of time was therefore unsuccessful. en-us Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:45:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=751689 Pleadings before an arbitral tribunal under Section 23 include claim, defence, counterclaim and objections, and a rejoinder or surrejoinder filed with permission or court liberty forms part of that pleading cycle. On that basis, the tribunal was justified in treating 20.05.2023, when liberty to file surrejoinder was granted and the surrejoinder was filed, as the date of completion of pleadings for Section 29A(1). The period during which the arbitral proceedings remained stayed by judicial order was also required to be excluded while computing the statutory time limit for making the award. The challenge to the tribunal's computation of time was therefore unsuccessful. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=751689