Libertatem Magazine Issue 2 | Page 11

litigation in India. Arbitration at the present day and age being driven by a private agreement has helped develop the idea of ‘people’s law for people’s service. A good starting point would be to know why arbitration as a dispute resolution has gained a lot of popularity in recent times and what are the statistics related to that upward trajectory of popularity. A study conducted by Price Waterhouse and Coopers in 2013, where they interviewed counsels of various legal establishments and corporate entities of government sector, private, non-profit sector and others came to the conclusion that nearly 83% of establishments having a dispute resolution policy would tend to have arbitration clause in their contracts and by doing so they didn’t submit their disputes to the judiciary for disposal. This to an extent proves that arbitration typically known as an ‘Alternate’ form of resolution of dispute is now a mainstream form of dispute resolution \