Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996

Institutional arbitration,administered end to end.

One system carrying a matter from filing to enforceable award: statutory deadlines computed rather than remembered, conflicts screened against official designation lists, and every consequential act written to a record that cannot be quietly altered.

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Designations screened against, merged from five official lists

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Sanctions and designation authorities, refreshed weekly

SHA-256

Hash-chained audit trail, verifiable on demand

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Role-separated workspaces on one case record

Four workspaces, one case record

Parties, the tribunal, the institution and researchers work from the same underlying matter, each seeing only what their role permits. Nothing is reconciled by hand between systems.

Party & Counsel

File a claim, serve notice, exchange pleadings, track deadlines, settle fees and receive the award, with visibility confined to your own matters.

Tribunal Desk

Case record, disclosures, procedural orders, deliberation notes, and award drafting with a signature and scrutiny workflow.

Institution Console

Intake review, appointments from the empanelled roster, conflict screening, fee administration, scheduling, analytics and the audit log.

Research Companion

Precedent search with citations resolved against a public judgment database, clause review, and s.34 exposure analysis.

The statute, encoded

Timelines under the Act are not reminders in a calendar. They are computed from the events that trigger them and enforced as guards on what the case can do next.

s.11Appointment
Appointments drawn from the empanelled roster, with tier and specialisation recorded against every nomination.
s.12 & Fifth ScheduleIndependence
Disclosures captured per member and classified against the IBA Guidelines, cross-checked by repeat-appointment analytics.
s.21Commencement
Service of notice starts the response clock, and every derived deadline is computed from it.
s.29AAward timeline
The twelve-month mandate is tracked from completion of pleadings, with the expedited six-month track handled separately.
s.31Award & signature
Majority signature of confirmed members is enforced before an award can issue. Dissents are recorded.
s.34Challenge window
The three-month period runs as calendar months rather than ninety days, with holiday calendars applied to business-day rolls.

Built for institutions that get audited

The controls below are enforced by the system rather than by procedure, and each one surfaces its own failures on the governance console instead of staying silent until someone checks.

Screening against official designations

Every party and tribunal member is screened at filing and re-screened weekly against merged designation lists (OFAC SDN, the UN Security Council Consolidated List, EU financial sanctions, UK OFSI, and India's UAPA banned organisations). A match names the designating authority and the exact entry it matched.

Tamper-evident record

Every consequential action is appended to a SHA-256 hash chain, verifiable on demand. An altered or deleted entry is detectable rather than merely unlikely.

Confidentiality by construction

Access is enforced server-side on every request. Parties reach only their own matters, tribunal-only material is withheld from parties, and documents are virus-scanned before they can be downloaded.

Separation of duties

Fee approval and disbursement cannot be performed by the same person. Breaches surface on the governance console instead of waiting for an audit to find them.

Decision support

Assistance that shows its sources

Ask a question of the case file and the answer cites the document it came from. Search for authority and every citation is resolved against a public judgment database before it is shown. Anything that cannot be resolved is marked unverified rather than presented as settled law.

Model output is a draft for a human to accept or reject. It never changes the state of a case on its own, and every invocation is logged with its cost and the redactions applied before sending.

  • Grounded question-answering across the case file, with citations
  • Precedent search verified against reported judgments
  • Clause review against the Act and institutional rules
  • s.34 exposure analysis, with its basis stated openly
  • Award scrutiny checks before issue

Administer your next matter on ArbitraOS

Existing users can sign in to their workspace. For institutional access, speak to us about onboarding your panel, rules and fee schedule.