Case Law Analysis
|Madhya Pradesh High Court
Section 12(5) Arbitration Act | Party-Appointed Government Official as Arbitrator Void for Impartiality: MP HC Jabalpur
MP High Court rules that a Principal Secretary of the Transport Department cannot serve as sole arbitrator under a contract due to inherent bias, applying Section 12(5) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act. The judgment reinforces that party-appointed arbitrators with direct departmental ties violate statutory impartiality requirements, impacting all government-contractor disputes with similar clauses.