Chief Justice Kant Stresses Stronger ADR Framework to Realise Aspirations of India-UK FTA

ICA Chief Justice Kant Stresses Stronger ADR Framework to Realise Aspirations of India-UK FTA 08-Jun-2026 / 12:50 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

 

Chief Justice Kant Stresses Stronger ADR Framework to Realise Aspirations of India-UK FTA

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Hon'ble Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant (third from left) with distinguished speakers at the 4th ICA International Conference on Indo-UK Commercial Disputes in London

 

United Kingdom, London, June 8, 2026
Hon'ble Chief Justice of India Mr. Surya Kant while addressing the ICA’s 4th Edition of the International Conference on "Arbitrating Indo-UK Commercial Disputes” at London, made a strong case for strengthening Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism to realise the aspiration of the free trade agreement (FTA) concluded between India and United Kingdom last year.

Hon’ble Justice Surya Kant said, "We need to strengthen the institutional arbitration that are required to ensure that party autonomy remains a guarantee of procedural fairness rather than a source of procedural contestation."

Referring to the FTA concluded between India and UK, he said it is expected to increase bilateral trade between the two nations by an estimated USD 34 billion a year in the near future, which is indeed an aspiration of extraordinary ambition.

"But ambitions are realized in contracts, not in communiqués. The Indo-UK economic partnership cannot be strengthened by trade agreements, tariff schedules, and investment announcements alone. It also needs an ADR architecture that converts commercial confidence into day-to-day practice," Justice Surya Kant said on June 5.

A corridor is not strengthened merely because goods, capital, and services are allowed to move across it. It is strengthened when those who use that corridor know that if something goes wrong, they will not be priced out, delayed out, forced into a process they had no real power to choose, he added.

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