Skip to content

The Last Word

A Diversion for Lawyers and Others

  • Home
  • About

Categories

  • Alienation of Affection (19)
  • Arbitration (145)
  • Books of Interest (131)
  • Civil Procedure (163)
  • Condonation of Delay (51)
  • Conflicting Statutes (158)
  • Consumer Law (93)
  • Contract Law (240)
  • Corporate Law (65)
  • Criminal Law (507)
  • Doctrines (441)
  • Election Law (32)
  • Entertainment Features (224)
  • Family Law (90)
  • Gambling Law (13)
  • Intellectual Property Law (84)
  • Judges, Judgments & Lawyers (1,063)
  • Labour Law (148)
  • Law & Science (178)
  • Law of Writs (104)
  • Limitation Law (63)
  • Nature of Judicial Power (541)
  • Negotiable Instruments (39)
  • Phrases (660)
  • Poems, Scripts (177)
  • Primacy of Views (246)
  • Property Law (40)
  • Referred to Larger Bench (129)
  • Special Jurisdictions/Jurisprudence (431)
  • Statutory Interpretation (409)
  • X Supreme Court X (1,572)

Recent Posts

  • Strict Construction of Election Law II
  • Section 138 Notice III
  • Lots of Love, Ritwik Deswal
  • Demise Charter
  • Criminal Proceedings in Marriages II
  • Duchess of Bedford’s Walk
  • Kerly’s Impasse
  • An Accidental Lawyer
  • 4935 Grams of Heroin
  • Elevator
  • The Rules of The Game Principle XII
  • Fourth Forum
  • Dignity
  • Hearing
  • Sri Lanka to Switzerland
  • Seamless Chain of Support
  • Section 9 of The Arbitration Act II
  • The Rules of The Game Principle XI
  • Refuse to Recuse
  • Can
  • Tribal Way of Life
  • Tirupati Laddoo
  • Honourable Acquittal VII
  • Random Collectibles, Transformative
  • Apples and Oranges

Archives

Top Posts & Pages

  • Order 6, Rule 16 of The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
  • Boris and Barbara
  • Judges with Colorful Lives: No. 10
  • The Nature of Judicial Power: One Battle After Another
  • A "Means and Includes" Definition IV
  • Chasing the Brigand: The Rajkumar Abduction
  • Order 21, Rule 11(3) of The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Blog Stats

  • 390,458

Enter your Email Address!

Doctrines

Public Policy and Foreign Arbitral Awards

In India, the true import of the phrase ‘public policy’ was, at first, put to question in relation to The Indian Contract Act, 1872. Section 23 reads as: “The consideration or object of an agreement is lawful, unless the Court regards it as immoral or opposed to public policy.” In 1959, in Gherulal Parakh v. Mahadeodas […]

Read more "Public Policy and Foreign Arbitral Awards"

Posts navigation

Newer posts →
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    The Last Word
    Join 107 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • The Last Word
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar