11/11/2022
The blue pencil doctrine is a legal concept in common law countries in which a court determines that some parts of a contract are void or unenforceable but other parts of the contract are enforceable.
The bench of Justices Surya Kant and M.M. Sundresh stated that exclusion clause is not a leverage or a safeguard for the insurer, but is meant to be pressed into service on a contingency, being a contract of speculation.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that, the very existence of doctrine of blue pencil having found to be totally illegal and detrimental to the - blue pencil, Supreme Court - Law Trend
