LLB 3 years Sem 6 Alternate Dispute Resolution System Solved Question Papers with Answers 2011 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Alternate Dispute Resolution System is mostly one statute, the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, with the Lok Adalats of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. Twenty-eight papers are solved here, from November 2010 to May 2026. Together they print 676 questions, but only 390 distinct answers are needed. That is because 123 questions come back word for word, 409 times in all. Every paper is on both the B.L.S. Semester 10 page and the LL.B. Semester 6 page, with the same answers.

Two topics lead the long answers. Of the 27 papers with 12- or 13-mark questions, 25 set a long answer on Lok Adalats or Permanent Lok Adalats. Twenty-one set one on conciliation, or on how it differs from arbitration. Foreign awards and the Geneva and New York conventions come in 16 papers, and setting aside or challenging an award in 15. One essay, on the importance of Lok Adalat in the judicial system, is set in eight papers in the same words.

The short questions repeat even more. The distinction between arbitration and conciliation is a short note in eleven papers, and the termination of arbitral proceedings in ten. The meaning of a foreign award, mediation, and the settlement agreement in conciliation are each asked in nine papers. The arbitration agreement under section 7 comes in eight. The presiding arbitrator, the lien on an award and the question what conciliation is come in seven papers each.

The problems reuse their facts with new names. Three arbitrators who sign an award and then demand their costs appear in three papers. So do an invitation to conciliate with questions on it, and a suit sent to a Lok Adalat against one party's wishes. A challenge to a Lok Adalat award comes three times. An arbitrator related to a party comes five times, with four different relationships. A section 34 petition filed in a Principal Sub-Court, at Madurai or at Bhopal, comes three times.

Check which pattern you are sitting. Up to May 2023 the paper was 100 marks in three hours. It had ten questions at 2 marks and four short notes out of six at 5. Then came two problems out of three at 6, and four long answers out of six at 12. The 2021-22 online paper had 20 multiple choice and 10 descriptive questions. From November 2022 most papers are 60 marks, and in May 2026 the LL.B. paper was 75 marks. The amended syllabus moves this subject to practical training, but the University still set Semester 6 and 10 papers in May 2026.

Some of the law in these answers is newer than most of the papers. Since 23 October 2015 an appointing court only checks that an arbitration agreement exists, and a Seventh Schedule relationship disqualifies an arbitrator. In 2024 the Supreme Court held one-sided appointment clauses in public contracts invalid (CORE). The same year, on a curative petition, it set aside its own 2021 Delhi Airport Metro judgment. In 2025 it allowed courts only a limited power to modify awards (Gayatri Balasamy). The Western Geco judicial-approach test no longer applies after 2015. The Arbitration Council of India had not been set up by February 2026, and the Mediation Act, 2023 has not yet replaced Part III.

A few facts about the files will save you confusion. Twenty-five of the 28 papers are the same PDF on both course pages. For December 2017, June 2018 and the April 2024 60-mark paper, the two pages hold two scans of one paper. November 2010 survives only as a typed copy. The May 2023 paper prints the same question twice, as its first and tenth. November 2013 and May 2012 print five items in a section where four are to be answered. October 2025 prints no marks for its sections.

These are model answers prepared by munotes. They are a study aid and not official University answer keys, which the University of Mumbai does not publish.