Case Law Analysis
|Delhi High Court
Section 34 Set-Aside: Award Partially Vacated for O&M Relief Beyond Arbitration Scope, Breaching Section 18 Equal-Treatment Requirement | NHAI-Louis Berger Arbitration : Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court partially vacated the NHAI-Louis Berger award, finding that the tribunal’s grant of operation-and-maintenance relief exceeded the matters arbitrable under the contract and breached the equal-treatment rule of Section 18. The construction-payment portion of the award remains intact, signalling that arbitral tribunals cannot extend relief beyond the defined scope in infrastructure consultancy disputes.