Throughout his legal and judicial career, Rothstein has authored more than 100 judgments and
arbitral decisions on domestic and cross-border cases of commercial significance and complexity.
Not exact matches
Article V (1)(c) of the New York Convention allows the competent authorities in Contracting States to refuse recognition and enforcement of an
arbitral award, or part of that award, where the award contains
decisions on matters «beyond the scope of the submission to arbitration».
Summary: The appellant appealed to the Supreme Court a
decision of the Svea Court of Appeal, which had rejected the appellant's application to declare an
arbitral award invalid
on the basis that...
She has also been actively involved in researching cognitive bias in
arbitral decision - making based
on Soia Mentschikoff's 1950s - 1960s experiment.
In reaching this
decision, the High Court undertook a review of past Singapore case law and legal commentary
on the nature and purpose of Article 34 (2)(a)(iii), ultimately deciding that «as a matter of policy, to hold that Art 34 (2)(a)(iii) does not apply, where no other limb under Art 34 (2) would be engaged, would allow an
arbitral tribunal to immunize its awards against judicial scrutiny by delivering its conclusions
on both jurisdiction and merits in a single award», which would have been an «unsatisfactory result».
On the
decision, John told Lexpert that «the message that [the SCC] and various courts of appeal have sent out over the past decade or more, that when parties decide to arbitrate disputes and the arbitrator makes a
decision, a great deal of deference is to be given by the court to the
arbitral tribunal.»
In a
decision recently published
on the Swedish Arbitration Portal, the Svea Court of Appeal dismissed a party's challenge to the
arbitral award, finding that the tribunal had not exceeded its mandate and did not breach the principle of equal treatment of the parties.
Indeed, the majority further expressed the view (obiter) that an
arbitral tribunal could order a final (rather than interim) award requiring compliance with the DAB's
decision if that is all that the tribunal was asked to rule
on.
Vivian Hood, Jaffe's Managing Director of Client Services, spoke
on a panel at the ARIAS - U.S. Spring Conference 2014 titled «How Does Social Media Change Hiring and
Arbitral Decisions?»
[8] In this case it was reported that the Supreme Qatari Court upheld a
decision to set aside an
arbitral award
on grounds other than those listed in the NYC.
In a
decision recently published
on the Swedish Arbitration Portal, the Svea Court of Appeal dismissed a party's challenge to the
arbitral award, finding that the party was precluded from challenging award
on several ground, and had failed to establish that the tribunal had been partial.
Keep an eye
on the dispute between ConocoPhillips and Venezuela over the illegal expropriation of oil investments to watch how another sovereign state attempts to push back against
arbitral decision: Venezuela is currently trying to get the ruling overturned.
In a
decision recently published
on the Swedish Arbitration Portal, the Svea Court of Appeal dismissed a party's challenge to the
arbitral award, finding that the tribunal had not exceeded its mandate.
If an individual
decision is wrong
on a point of law, there is often no continuing damage done to the general legal principle because other arbitrators are unlikely to hear of that
arbitral decision and are not obliged to follow it even if they do.
This
decision has been the subject of considerable discussion among arbitration practitioners: as was discussed several months ago
on Slaw, the case raises a number of difficult questions about how international arbitration and Canada's treaty obligations in that respect interact with local procedural law — specifically limitation of actions — when seeking to enforce the award, and more generally whether foreign judgments and
arbitral awards should continue to be treated, for limitations purposes, as mere contract debts.
The published materials include three
decisions from 2016 - 2017, in which Russian courts recognized SCC
arbitral awards as enforceable
on the territory of the Russian Federation.
While we will be featuring posts over the coming days
on this award that dissect and analyze the award, its international legal significance, and its larger geopolitical consequences for all claimants to the South China Sea dispute and third - party actors (such as the United States), for now, a close read of all 479 pages of this
arbitral award reveals it to be an extremely rich and fertile piece of international jurisprudence, one that will certainly have far - ranging doctrinal impacts as an international judicial
decision that is also an authoritative subsidiary means for determination of the international law rules under UNCLOS, especially
on questions such as the: 1) normative weight of «historic rights» and differentiating the same from «historic title» and «historic rights short of sovereignty», and clarifying what could still possibly amount to historic rights that States could still validly assert within the UNCLOS treaty regime;
In a
decision recently published
on the Swedish Arbitration Portal, the Supreme Court affirmed a
decision of the Svea Court of Appeal, which had rejected an appellant's application to declare an
arbitral award invalid
on the basis that it violated public policy.
The
arbitral tribunal shall in the final award or, if it deems appropriate, in any other award, determine any amount that a party may have to pay to another party as a result of the
decision on allocation of costs.
(c) If the parties have not made a
decision as to the number of arbitrators
on the respective
Arbitral Tribunal within thirty (30) calendar days from receipt of the arbitration request: decide
on whether one or three arbitrators shall be appointed by the Governing Board (Art. 2 (2) of the Rules).
In a recently published
decision, the Supreme Court set aside an
arbitral award
on the grounds that the
arbitral tribunal had wrongly accepted jurisdiction.
This applies only to circumstances where the parties reside in different provinces or if the proposed
decision to refuse enforcement or set aside a domestic
arbitral award is made
on the ground of «violating the public interests».
Historically, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) was the only major institution to provide reasoned
decisions on arbitrator challenges, but in recent years other
arbitral institutions have followed suit.
The
decision also forms part of a recent trend of English courts relying
on section 37 (1) of the 1981 Act to support the
arbitral process.
Stolt - Nielsen and this case thus fall
on opposite sides of the line that § 10 (a)(4) draws to delimit judicial review of
arbitral decisions.
The tribunal is obliged to comply with that general duty in conducting the
arbitral proceedings, in its
decisions on matters of procedure and evidence, and in the exercise of all other powers conferred upon it.
Judicial Tribunal for the Dubai Courts and DIFC Courts awards Dubai Courts jurisdiction in «conduit» cases: The Judicial Tribunal for the Dubai Courts and the DIFC Courts, established in 2016 to rule
on conflicts of jurisdiction and conflicts of judgments between the two courts, has issued two recent
decisions in cases where claimants obtained an order from the DIFC Courts recognising
arbitral awards made outside the DIFC, where there was no connection with the DIFC, and where the order recognising the award was referred for enforcement to the Dubai courts for enforcement against assets located there.
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-.
On 6 March 2018 the Grand Chamber of the CJEU ruled in the Achmea
decision (C - 284 / 16) that the bilateral investment treaty (BIT) between The Netherlands and the Slovak Republic violated EU law because it allowed an
arbitral tribunal to interpret provisions of EU law in a dispute between investors and (Member) States, while such interpretation...
Read about recognition in Colombia of an
arbitral award rendered abroad, which remains controversial, and the most significant Colombia Supreme Court
decisions on the issue.
Final
decisions of the SIX Sanctions Committee can be appealed to an independent appeal body or to a special
arbitral tribunal, depending
on the violation at stake.
Concerns have also been raised about the absence of a system of binding precedent, inconsistencies in
decision - making, the cost and time involved in investment arbitration, lack of transparency and the very narrow grounds
on which
arbitral awards can be challenged.
The parties to a dispute refer it to one or more persons (the «arbitrators», «arbiters» or «
arbitral tribunal»)
on whose
decision (the «award») they agree to be legally bound (for both sides).