Amazon in Supreme Court: Future can’t ignore arbitrator’s order

Amazon on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that Future Group deliberately chose to ignore and disregard Singapore’s emergency arbitrator’s (EA) order restraining it from going ahead with its deal with Reliance Retail. The company said subsequent to disregarding the EA’s interim order, Future Group is “trying to camouflage its weak arguments” by using the word “nullity again and again”.

Opening its arguments before a bench led by Justice RF Nariman, senior counsel Gopal Subramanium, appearing for Amazon, argued that there is no provision in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act that prohibits the concept of an EA and the law gives complete freedom to parties to choose the venue of arbitration and order of EA is binding on all the parties except the arbitral tribunal.