https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=465180 Acceptance of a final bill and escalation bill as full and final settlement constituted accord and satisfaction where the contractor raised coercion only later and produced no particulars or supporting material of financial hardship or compulsion. The written settlement therefore displaced the claim of an arbitrable dispute. Clause 18 of the contract separately barred compensation or damages for delay, so an arbitrator could not grant delay-related relief in direct conflict with that exclusion. An award made contrary to an express contractual bar was treated as beyond the contractual limits of reference and unsustainable. en-us Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:41:59 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=465180 Acceptance of a final bill and escalation bill as full and final settlement constituted accord and satisfaction where the contractor raised coercion only later and produced no particulars or supporting material of financial hardship or compulsion. The written settlement therefore displaced the claim of an arbitrable dispute. Clause 18 of the contract separately barred compensation or damages for delay, so an arbitrator could not grant delay-related relief in direct conflict with that exclusion. An award made contrary to an express contractual bar was treated as beyond the contractual limits of reference and unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=465180