Adv. Mridul Vats

Commercial disputes mistakenly filed as ordinary civil suits cannot simply be transferred from the ordinary civil courts to commercial courts and such suits must be returned to the plaintiff under Order VII Rule 10 CPC. Plaintiff shall file a fresh commercial suit after adhering to all the requirements as provisioned under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015.

A group of workers is retrenched by the company that employed them. The company looks thin on assets, but behind it sits a well-funded parent or a set of directors who clearly call the shots. The natural instinct is to pull all of them into the industrial dispute, the company, it