Supreme Court Holds Drafting of Ambiguous Arbitration Clauses by Law Firms Amounts to Professional Misconduct

The Supreme Court strongly criticised law firms for writing unclear arbitration and jurisdiction clauses in business contracts.

A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant called this "professional misconduct" that creates confusion and leads to more court cases.

They said lawyers deliberately make clauses complicated instead of using simple one-line terms, questioning who grants them law degrees and allows them to form firms.

The Supreme Court refused to change this but warned against such poor drafting by young lawyers in big firms

[Himadri Speciality Chemicals v. Jindal Coke Ltd.]