Article 11
Default Tribunal Timeline
Award within one hundred eighty days of constitution. Extensions only on reasoned order, published on the institutional calendar.
LEX
ARBITRATE
Iustitia Sine Mora
Justice Without Delay
An Indian-seated institution issuing reasoned arbitral awards on a published timeline, under a transparent fee schedule.
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Business Day
The Secretariat acknowledges every valid Notice of Arbitration within one business day of receipt.
07
Days to Tribunal
A sole arbitrator or Emergency Arbitrator is constituted within seven days of the Secretariat’s scheduling order.
18
Months to Award
The Consolidated Rulebook targets reasoned final awards within eighteen months of constitution, inside the statutory cap.
Who We Serve
Three constituencies. Three discrete pathways.
A Forum Your Drafting Team Can Cite
Institutional Rules, track calibration, and pre-evidence discovery designed to shorten the distance from brief to award — without compromising due process.
View RulesDisputes Resolved on Contracted Timelines
Four proportional tracks from small-value expedited determination to complex-commercial arbitration — each tied to published, cost-sanctioned timelines.
View Schedule IPanel Appointments Under a Disciplined Institution
A rigorous framework with IBA 2024 disclosure discipline, Institutional Review supervision, and fair fee calibration across track tiers.
Panel OverviewThe Indian Seat
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.
Statutory seat
Section 29A as the floor, not the ceiling
The Arbitration and Conciliation Act caps domestic tribunals at twelve months, extendable by six. Our Rulebook institutionalises a lower internal target and publishes timeline data at anonymised portfolio level.
Cost advantage, published
Schedule I, openly
A fixed ad-valorem fee schedule, published in the Rulebook, means parties price a dispute before commencement. No retainer creep, no hourly accretion, no privately negotiated institutional fee.
Scrutiny of award
Article 41, before signature
The Registry scrutinises every draft award for form, arithmetic, internal consistency, and compliance with the Rulebook before the Tribunal signs. The objective: awards that withstand challenge in the supervisory court.
“Justice without delay is the standing institutional commitment of Lex Arbitrate. It is not an aspiration; it is the architecture.”
The Institutional Promise
Rules at a Glance
Consolidated Rulebook v1.2 — the enforcing instrument.
Article 24
Emergency Arbitrator
Interim relief heard within seventy-two hours of filing. A decision binding until the full tribunal sits.
Article 38
Institutional Data Room
Evidentiary record maintained centrally, timestamped, counsel-audited. Disclosure disputes resolved within seven days.
Knowledge Centre
Institutional commentary on arbitration law, procedure, and the Indian seat. Deliberate, not frequent.
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. We open the calendar.
Parties with a valid arbitration agreement may commence proceedings under the Consolidated Rulebook. The Secretariat acknowledges within one business day and schedules constitution within seven.
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