Arbitration Notes

ENGLISH COURT GRANTS ANTI-SUIT INJUNCTION RESTRAINING FOREIGN PROCEEDINGS IN BREACH OF ARBITRATION AGREEMENT INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN BILLS OF LADING

THE CONTINUING IMPORTANCE OF FULL AND FRANK DISCLOSURE IN APPLICATIONS FOR FREEZING ORDERS IN SUPPORT OF ARBITRATION

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

English Commercial Court refuses to grant interim injunctive relief requiring a party to withdraw a claim in another jurisdiction

High Court grants anti-suit injunction, having found that the parties to an insurance policy had agreed to arbitration despite a Service of Suit clause

In Hiscox Dedicated Corporate Member v Weyerhaeuser Co [2019] EWHC 2671 (Comm), the High Court (the English Court) continued an anti-suit injunction …

English Court rejects section 68 challenge on the primary ground that the Tribunal's decision was a Procedural Order and not an Award

In the recent case of ZCCM Investments Holdings PLC v Kansanshi Holdings PLC & Anor [2019] EWHC 1285 (Comm), the English Court (the Court) rejected a …

Swiss Federal Tribunal refuses to set aside the Deutsche Telekom v India Award

We previously reported here that a Geneva-seated UNCITRAL tribunal (the "Tribunal") constituted under the India-Germany Bilateral Investment Treaty dated …

English court sets aside arbitration award for serious irregularity due to tribunal's non-disclosure of novel point central to award

The odds of successfully challenging an arbitral award in the English Courts on the basis of s68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (serious irregularity) …

English Court refuses to grant an injunction against the enforcement of a s1782 US Evidence Order

In a decision dated 24 August 2018, the English Commercial Court (the “Court“) dismissed Dreymoor Fertilisers Overseas PTE Ltd's (“Dreymoor“) application …

West Tankers principle unaffected by Recast Brussels Regulation; mandatory foreign jurisdictional rules do not encroach on scope of widely worded arbitration clause

In Nori Holdings Limited et al v PJSC Bank Okritie Financial Corporation [2018] EWHC 1343 (Comm) the English court has applied the Recast Brussels …

English Commercial Court orders stay of Lebanon-seated arbitration in 'exceptional' case

In the most recent decision in the Sabbagh family feud, Sabbagh v Khoury & Ors [2018] EWHC 1330 (Comm), the English Commercial Court ordered the stay …