LEX
ARBITRATE
An institution administering arbitration without territorial restriction issuing reasoned arbitral awards on a published timeline, under a transparent fee schedule.
Counsel filing under the Rulebook follow a single institutional path. Three steps. Eight days. The clock starts on day one.
- 01
Notice of Arbitration
Counsel files the Notice under Part II of the Rulebook, naming the parties, the arbitration agreement, the dispute, and the relief sought.
Day 0 - 02
Registry Acknowledgment
The Registry acknowledges the Notice within one business day under Article 6, opens the institutional file, and issues the scheduling order.
By Day 1 - 03
Tribunal Constitution
A sole arbitrator or three-member panel is constituted within seven days, under Articles 9 and 13. The Section 29A statutory clock begins.
By Day 8
Counsel of Record
Indian and international counsel filing on a published clock, at a published price, before tribunals whose awards survive the supervisory court.
Institutional services →Counterparties
Respondents reading the Rulebook for the first time find a procedure that constrains the claimant as much as the respondent. Section 29A binds both.
Read the Rulebook →Empanelled Arbitrators
Senior advocates, retired judges, and subject-matter specialists serving on the institutional empanelment under disclosed conflict and standing requirements.
The empanelment →India sits at the confluence of the world's largest commercial caseload and a statutory regime expressly designed for institutional dispute resolution. Lex Arbitrate is built to that regime, not adapted to it.
Section 29A as the floor, not the ceiling
The Arbitration and Conciliation Act caps domestic tribunals at twelve months, extendable by six. Counsel filing under our Rulebook commit to a lower internal target. The Registry publishes timeline data at anonymised portfolio level, every quarter.
Schedule I, openly
A fixed ad-valorem fee schedule, published in the Rulebook with an interactive calculator on the Rules page. Counsel price a dispute before commencement. No retainer creep, no hourly accretion, no privately negotiated institutional fee.
Article 41, before signature
The Registry protects every draft award from the form-grounds on which the supervisory court most often sets awards aside. Article 41 scrutiny adds approximately fourteen days; it removes the procedural set-aside risk that has historically been India's weakest link.
Procedural architecture calibrated by sum in dispute. Counsel choose the track at filing; the Registry confirms eligibility on the next business day.
Documents-only proceeding before a sole arbitrator. Fixed institutional fee. Suitable for short-form commercial recoveries and consumer-adjacent disputes.
Expedited proceeding before a sole arbitrator. Capped exchange of pleadings; single hearing or documents-only at the Tribunal's direction.
Three-member tribunal under the full procedural calendar. The default for substantial commercial disputes between sophisticated counterparties.
Three-member tribunal with institutional case-management, staged witness phase, and discrete document-production protocol.
“Justice without delay is the standing institutional commitment of Lex Arbitrate. It is not an aspiration; it is the architecture.”
Narrow.
Voluntary.
Forty-five days.
The Institutional Review Panel sits only where the parties have expressly opted in. Its mandate is confined to manifest error on the face of the award. It does not re-hear. It does not re-weigh evidence. Its decision is rendered within forty-five days of reference.
A reference to the Panel is without prejudice to any party's rights under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, or Section 48 in the case of foreign awards.
Read the Review Panel Rules →Section 29A and the Institutional Clock
Why statutory timelines only bind when institutional architecture enforces them. A note on translating the twelve-plus-six framework into Rulebook articles.
Read the commentary →Scrutiny of Award: Article 41 in Practice
Institutional scrutiny is not editorial review. It is the registry’s line-level check against the form requirements every supervisory court expects.
Read the procedure note →India as Seat, Against Singapore and London
The volume case, the cost case, the statutory case. A comparative reading of three institutional regimes and where each is stronger.
Read the thesis →File your matter. The institutional clock opens on the next business day.
Counsel with a valid arbitration agreement may commence proceedings under the Consolidated Rulebook. The Registry acknowledges within one business day; the Tribunal is constituted within seven; the institutional target is eighteen months to award.
Withdrawal within fourteen days of the Notice is permitted under Article 7 without forfeiture of the Registration Fee.