Supreme Court on Award of Interest (In Arbitration, Civil, Commercial, Consumer, Motor Accident, Service, Tax and Other Matters)

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Description
In an age when long standing interim arrangements are what dispute resolution results in, the award of interest assumes critical importance, especially in commercial disputes. Alive to this, this unique compendium comprehensively eccapulates more than sixty-two years of the Supreme Court's rulings on the award of interest in nearly every possible kind of situation, and the bare text of the relevant sections of the Arbitration Act, 1940 and the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996; S. 34 CPC the two Interest Acts of 1839 and 1978. The expert Editors at SCC have painstakingly extracted nearly every single ruling on the award of interest across a broad specturm of disputes from 1950 rill date, which had resulted in this unique compendium. the reader can thus simultaneously study the bare text of the relevant statutory provisions and this thorough compendiun of Supreme Court case law on the award of interest.
This authoritative work had been planned and designed to provide the most exhaustive , analytical and systematic coverage of the case law laid down by the Suprme Court on the Subject and shall be found indispensable by ecery arbitrator, every party invovled in a commercial dispute, every lawyer,Judge, jurist and scholar .
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Contents
1.    Generally
2.    Arbitral matters/power of arbitrator to award interest
3.    Arbitration Act, 1940 — Sections 13 and 29
4.    Arbitration Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 31(7)
5.    Calculation of interest/Capitalisation/Rests, etc
6.    Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 34
7.    Claim amount
8.    Compensation as interest/Interest on compensation
9.    Compound interest/Interest on interest
10.    Consumer cases
11.    Contractual interest/rate of interest
12.    Costs/Interest on costs
13.    Date of commencement of interest
14.    Delayed payments/withheld amount/Wrongfully detained amount
15.    Denial of interest
16.    Development Authority/Housing Board
17.    Equitable interest/relief
18.    Executing court
19.    Instalments
20.    Insurer
21.    Interest Act, 1839
22.    Interest Act, 1978
23.    Interst on Delayed Payments to Small and Ancillary Industrial Undertakings Act, 1993
24.    Interest Tax
25.    Interim interest - levey of proposed interest by interim order
26.    Land acquisition and requisition
27.    Mesne profits
28.    Penal interest
29.    Pre-litigation or pre-reference interest
30.    Pendente lite interest
31.    Post decree/post award interest
32.    Power of court to award interest
33.    Rate of interest/Enhancement/Reduction/Usury prohibition
34.    Recovery of excess interest paid/Refund of Interest
35.    Refund of tax
36.    Refundable amount/refund/refund of deposit/court deposit of order
37.    Restitutionary compensation
38.    Restitutionary interest
39.    Retrial benefits
40.    Retospective charging of interest
41.    Special/Customary rules for grant of interest
42.    Tax due/wrongful availment oftax credit/exemption, etc.
43.    Trusts and Trustees
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Author Details
Surendra Malik : B. Sc.(Hons.), LL.B.(Del.),LL.M. (Columbia) Gold Medalist, Advocate, Supreme Court
                         Cheif Editor : 'Supreme Court Cases'
Sudeep Malik   : B. A. (Hons.), M. A. (Cantab.), Adcovate, Associate Editor : 'Supreme Court Cases'
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