In the past decade, it has handled some of the most high - profile arbitrations and proceedings to enforce, or resist the enforcement of,
arbitral awards before the English, Hong Kong and Singapore courts.
The Committee on the Review of Swedish Arbitration has carried out a review to chart the scope and nature of challenges to
arbitral awards before Swedish Courts of Appeal.
In the past decade, it has handled some of the most high - profile arbitrations as well as ancillary proceedings to enforce, or resist the enforcement of,
arbitral awards before the English, Hong Kong and, through the Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance, Singapore courts.
by Johan Munck and Helga Hullmann The Committee on the Review of Swedish Arbitration has carried out a review to chart the scope and nature of challenges to
arbitral awards before Swedish Courts of Appeal.
Not exact matches
Further, where an application to set aside the
arbitral award was pending
before a court at the seat of the arbitration, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales considered that the partial enforcement provisions of article V (1)(c) could be applied to enforce the parts of the
award that were not subject to challenge.836
Courts have consistently confirmed this in relation to article V (1)(c).837 For example, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied a party's attempt to raise a challenge under article V (1)(c) to oppose an order compelling arbitration, that is,
before the
arbitral proceedings had even taken place.838 The court noted that the provision could only be invoked by a party opposing enforcement of an
award, which was not possible in circumstances where no
award had been issued, and also unlikely where the party raising the challenge was the claimant in the would - be arbitration, and thus not the party who would be in a position to challenge any resulting
arbitral award absent any counterclaims.839
An
arbitral award was rendered in India against a United States corporation, which argued
before the Court that it should not be enforced in the United States on grounds that India would not have enforced the
award had it been rendered in the United States in its favour, and that therefore, «the reciprocity between India and the United States as required by the Convention [article XIV] was absent».1394 The contesting party further argued that article XIV requires courts to determine the extent to which India applies the Convention and whether India treats
awards rendered in India in favour of Indian parties in a similar manner.
European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration, Geneva, 21 April 1961, Article VIII: «The parties shall be presumed to have agreed that reasons shall be given for the
award unless they (a) either expressly declare that reasons shall not be given; or (b) have assented to an
arbitral procedure under which it is not customary to give reasons for
awards, provided that in this case neither party requests
before the end of the hearing, or if there has not been a hearing then
before the making of the
award, that reasons be given.»
Our work has included obtaining the recognition and enforcement of four AAA
arbitral awards through proceedings conducted
before and after the enactment of the Dominican commercial arbitration law, which have become landmark cases in the Dominican Republic.
The European Commission must therefore -LSB-...] express its reservation with respect to the
Arbitral Tribunal's competence to arbitrate the claim brought
before it by Eureko B.V.» (see para. 193 of the
award)
Represented a foreign sovereign
before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to defend against efforts to have recognized and enforced, under the New York Convention, an approximately $ 1 billion ICSID Additional Facility
arbitral award.
Represented a foreign sovereign
before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in seeking, pursuant to the Federal Arbitration, vacatur of an approximately $ 1.4 billion ICSID Additional Facility
arbitral award, and in defending against an attempt to enforce the
award under the New York Convention.
The application
before the High Court was the first in which a party requested the Singapore courts to set aside an investor - State
arbitral award on the merits.
The issues
before the SCC in this case highlight the existence of problematic gaps in Canadian legislation with regard to the procedural status of international
arbitral awards.
In addition, the instruments, if ratified, would not cover settlement agreements that are approved by a court or have been concluded in the course of proceedings
before a court, or those that have been recorded and are enforceable as
arbitral awards.
If a party, duly invited by the
arbitral tribunal to produce documents, exhibits or other evidence, fails to do so within the established period of time, without showing sufficient cause for such failure, the
arbitral tribunal may make the
award on the evidence
before it.
The
arbitral tribunal may, if it considers it necessary owing to exceptional circumstances, decide, on its own initiative or upon application of a party, to reopen the proceedings at any time
before the
award is made.
Counsel
before the Paris Court of Appeal for a commercial party resisting a challenge to an
arbitral award.
Counsel for the Attorney General of Belize
before the Caribbean Court of Justice on issues of constitutional law connected with the enforcement in Belize of an
arbitral award in favour of Belize Bank Limited.
«They bring their level of understanding of litigation into the enforcement of
arbitral awards,» so rather than a short enforcement process, «they start going into the rigorous process of litigation» and «
before you know it, you are back into litigation again, thereby frustrating the
award.»
A final and binding
award, therefore, precludes the successful party from bringing the same claim (s) again, either in a fresh arbitration or
before the national courts, and precludes both parties from contradicting the decision of the
arbitral tribunal on a question of law or fact decided by the
award (Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada and others v The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company [2006] 1 All ER (Comm) 675; Injazat Technology Capital Ltd v Najafi [2012] EWHC 4171 (Comm)-RRB-.
Petition under section 9 is for interim measures which was filed
before commencement of arbitration proceedings and or during the ongoing arbitration proceedings whereas petition under section 34 is filed for impugning the
arbitral award.
The respondent in that case had filed a petition
before Delhi High Court under Section 9 for stay of
arbitral proceedings and filed another proceedings questioning the
award on the issue of exchange rate.
If,
before the
award is made, the parties agree on a settlement of the dispute, the Tribunal shall either issue an order for the termination of the
arbitral proceedings or, if requested by both parties and accepted by the Tribunal, record the settlement in the form of an
arbitral award on agreed terms.