There cannot be single-Arbitration-Reference-Disputes-Arising out of different-Agreements-Sipreme Court -read-judgment
There cannot be single-Arbitration-Reference-Disputes-Arising out of different-Agreements-Sipreme Court -read-judgment/ While disposing of arbitration requests pertaining to agreements between Gangavaram Port Ltd(GPL)., M/s Duro Felguera S.A, a Spanish company(DF) and Felguera Graus India Private Ltd.(FGI), the Supreme Court held that there cannot be a single arbitration reference for disputes arising out of different agreements, even if they are inter-linked to a single transaction. GPL had awarded a tender work to DF and FGI, its Indian subsidiary. Later, the original contract was split up into five separate contracts, with different job descriptions. Four of such contracts were with FGI, the Indian subsidiary, and one of them was with DF. Each contract had a separate arbitration clause. Apart from that, DF had entered into a performance guarantee agreement with GPL for the performance of contract by FGI, which also had an arbitration clause. Later, a tripartite MoU was entered into...