Tag: section 9 of the english arbitration act 1996
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27 November 2025
Ticking the Right Boxes: the Orange v Shein decision on jurisdictional challenges and staying arbitration
23 August 2018
Implied horizontal contract prompts stay of proceedings S9 AA 1996
In Mercato Sports v Everton[1], the English High Court found that two parties were bound by an implied horizontal contract containing an arbitration …
11 October 2017
Parallel court and arbitration proceedings: English High Court grapples with further case management issues in Panama Canal dispute, clarifying that service of a defence pending appeal on refusal to grant a stay will not constitute “a step towards answering the substantive claim”
In our previous blog post on Autoridad del Canal de Panama v Sacyr, S.A. & Ors, we considered a failed application to stay English court proceedings …
28 September 2017
English High Court refuses stay of proceedings despite possible overlap with issues subjected to parallel ICC arbitration proceedings.
A consortium of construction companies (the Consortium) was unsuccessful in obtaining a stay of court proceedings pending before the English High Court …
15 December 2014
English Court of Appeal considers whether the mandatory stay provisions of s9(1) of the Arbitration Act of 1996 apply to winding-up petitions
The English Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal brought against a recent High Court decision to stay a winding-up petition in favour of arbitration …