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We write to think out loud. What follows is where our judgment has landed on the questions our clients actually deal with.
Navigating DPDP compliance: key challenges and open issues The Digital Personal Data Protection Act changes how organisations handle data in India. The difficult questions are not in the headline obligations but in the implementation: how you build consent, how you handle cross-border transfers, and what compliance actually looks like at scale. ↗ Arbitration in 2024: landmark rulings and key takeaways From what now counts as a ‘court’ under the Arbitration Act to calls for a fixed limitation period on appointing arbitrators, we review the rulings that shaped the arbitration landscape over the past year. ↗ Private equity and its role in green innovation As sustainability shifts from preference to priority, private capital is well placed to speed up the transition, from financing clean technology to scaling eco-friendly businesses. We look at the opportunity and the structuring questions that come with it. ↗ Can disputes be referred to arbitration without an arbitration clause? Where several contracts come out of a single project, the Delhi High Court found that correspondence between the parties can establish an agreement to arbitrate, even where not every contract carries the clause. ↗ The seat or the assets: where do you enforce the award? Arbitration has become the default route for commercial disputes in India, but enforcing the award is a contest of its own. Tight limitation periods and a narrow scope of challenge mean an award ripens quickly. The harder question is where you enforce it: against the seat, or against the assets. ↗ Bail is the rule: the Supreme Court’s latest attempt to revive a dead letter Bail, not jail, unless there is reason to think a person will flee or obstruct justice. It is an easy principle to state and a stubbornly hard one to apply. We look at it again through the Court’s most recent effort to give it real force. ↗
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