THE ARBITRATION WORKSHOP

This article presents a detailed legal analysis in support of the Supreme Court's landmark majority opinion in Gayatri Balaswamy v. M/S ISG Novasoft Technologies Ltd. It argues that granting courts a limited power to modify arbitral awards is a pragmatic and necessary evolution, not judicial overreach, and counters textualist critiques by defending the Court’s purposive interpretation, which frames modification as a logical corollary of severability.

upholding valid arbitral awards ensuring minimum judicial intervention and disallowing enforceability of awards

-Haaris Moosa[1] Facts and Judgment The judgment of the Delhi High Court in Hindustan Zinc Ltd. v. National Research Development Corpn[2]...