Arbitration Notes

ENGLISH HIGH COURT RESOLVES PRIMA FACIE CONFLICT BETWEEN DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLAUSES IN FAVOUR OF ARBITRATION AGREEMENT

ENGLISH HIGH COURT GRANTS CONDITIONAL STAY OF IP CLAIM

ENGLISH COURT REFUSES TO STAY COURT PROCEEDINGS UNDER ARBITRATION ACT 1996 IN CASE INVOLVING COMPETING JURISDICTION AND ARBITRATION CLAUSES

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 …

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 …

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 …

English Court Stays Enforcement of Micula ICSID Award Against Romania

In Micula & Ors v Romania & Anor [2017] EWHC 31 (Comm) the English High Court stayed enforcement of a 2013 ICSID award in favour of Swedish …

Stay of enforcement of guarantee on basis that guarantor agrees to be bound by pending arbitration award

In [Stemcor UK Ltd v Global Steel Holdings Ltd and Pramod Mittal] the English High Court (the Court) was required to consider the Claimant's application …