The International Court of Arbitration (ICA) promoted its deputy counsel Abhinav Bhushan – the first Indian lawyer to have made it into the ICA – to regional director for South Asia

Breaking: The Supreme Court today overruled the doctrine laid down in its own year 2002 landmark Bhatia International v Bulk Trading SA & Anr case, which held that Indian courts had exclusive jurisdiction to test the validity of an arbitral award made in India even when the proper law of the contract is the law of another country.