Arbitration Notes

English High Court sets aside permission to enforce fabricated arbitral award

In a recent decision in Contax Partners Inc BVI v Kuwait Finance House (KFH-Kuwait) & Ors [2024] EWHC 436 (Comm), the English Commercial Court (the …

English Court sets aside award on the ground that the arbitral tribunal lacked substantive jurisdiction

In DHL Project & Chartering Ltd v Gemini Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd [2022] EWHC 181 (Comm), the Commercial Court has set aside an arbitral award under …

ENGLISH COURT ONCE AGAIN UPHOLDS AWARD OF THIRD PARTY FUNDING COSTS IN ARBITRATION

HIGH COURT CONSIDERS TWO S69 APPEALS ON QUESTION OF LAW WITH ONE APPEAL SUCCESSFUL

ENGLISH COURT ALLOWS SECTION 69 APPEAL ON A POINT OF LAW, BLOCKING PARTY’S ATTEMPT TO REVISIT PERMISSION TO APPEAL ONCE GRANTED

ENGLISH COMMERCIAL COURT RELEASES S68 AND S69 STATISTICS FOR COURT YEAR 2019 – 2020: CHALLENGES DOWN AGAIN AND THE NON-INTERVENTIONIST APPROACH SUSTAINED

ENGLISH HIGH COURT GRANTS NIGERIA EXTENSION OF TIME TO CHALLENGE USD 6.6 BILLION AWARD FOR FRAUD

ENGLISH HIGH COURT CHARACTERISES UNSUCCESSFUL CHALLENGE TO AWARD UNDER S68 AS “SEEKING TO ATTACK AN ARBITRATOR’S FINDINGS OF FACT AND HER EVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE” UNDER GUISE OF PROCEDURAL IRREGULARITY

AWARD ENFORCEMENT ORDERS: TO SET ASIDE OR NOT TO SET ASIDE? – THAT IS THE QUESTION

COURT OF APPEAL UPHOLDS HIGH COURT DECISION THAT A DISCLOSED PRINCIPAL IS ENTITLED TO ENFORCE AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT DESPITE BEING A NON-SIGNATORY

ENGLISH COURT DISMISSES APPEAL ON POINT OF LAW AGAINST PARTIAL FINAL AWARD