One of the major concerns of all investors and innovators, foreign as well as domestic is the time, effort and money it takes to resolve a dispute in India. The problem is increasingly difficult for startups whose dispute value may be less than a crore or even INR 50 lakhs. Increasing number of companies are becoming vary of arbitration due to its increasing cost and high probability of court appeal. Increasing number of companies are opting to refer disputes to mediation before proceeding to arbitration or litigation.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) retained partner Chitra Narayan in Chennai will go independent to focus on mediation, reported Bar & Bench . She told the website, “I have been a mediator with the Tamil Nadu Media & Conciliation Centre for about ten years and a year and a half ago I along with oth...

Despite the Law Commission’s suggestion to go for mediation as an alternative system of settling disputes, the process is yet to start visibly in India, Tripura High Court judges have said. “The process is yet to start noticeably though the system is a well accepted method in the US,” high court jud...

Justice JS Khehar of the Supreme Court today inaugurated a mediation centre at the Patiala House district courts here. Justice Khehar, in his inaugural address, highlighted the benefits of mediation and the success it has achieved in India in reducing the huge pendency of cases. He expressed the hop...

The Supreme Court yesterday recommended that former Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia should mediate in a dispute of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet (BPP) over two priests who were banned for allegedly performing allegedly unsanctioned ceremonies. The ban was quashed by the Bombay high court in 2011, and...

Live blog from Saturday: NLIU Int’l Mediation Competition (by NLIU) NLIU Bhopal student Surabhi Singh is running a live blog on Legally India of NLIU Bhopal’s International Mediation Competition on Saturday and Sunday (13 and 14 October). Click on through to follow 29 teams duke out – sorry, mediate...