{"id":24476,"date":"2026-05-16T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=24476"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:31:44","slug":"the-commercial-courts-act-2015-architecture-jurisdiction-case-law-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/the-commercial-courts-act-2015-architecture-jurisdiction-case-law-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commercial Courts Act, 2015 \u2014 Architecture, Jurisdiction, Case Law & Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/span>1. Genesis and Legislative Architecture of Commercial Courts<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

India’s ranking in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) index \u2014 with ‘enforcing contracts’ stubbornly languishing in the 160s \u2014 supplied the immediate political impetus for legislation of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 (hereinafter ‘the Act’). The Law Commission of India, in its 188th Report (2003) and its 253rd Report (2015), had catalogued with clinical precision the pathologies afflicting commercial litigation: docket congestion, indefinite adjournments, the absence of specialist judges, and the absence of any procedural mechanism to enforce pre-institution mediation. Parliament responded with Act 4 of 2016 (assented to on 31 December 2015), which inserted an entirely new institutional layer into the civil justice architecture.<\/p>

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