This Connect provides a brief overview of the judgement of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, in the case of Union Territory of J&K v. M/s SRM Contractors Ltd., wherein it reaffirmed that a person’s past professional relationship as an employee of a party does not, by itself, attract the disqualifications under Section 12(5) and the Seventh Schedule of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.