Supreme Court upholds rejection of bid to file additional documents in commercial suit, says piecemeal evidence defeats Commercial Courts Act

The Supreme Court has held that parties to a commercial dispute cannot repeatedly seek to place additional documents on record at different stages of the trial without demonstrating a reasonable cause. Stressing that the Commercial Courts Act is designed to ensure speedy adjudication, the Court ruled that permitting a piecemeal approach to evidence would frustrate the legislative objective of expeditious disposal of commercial disputes.

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