«The Supreme Court is signaling to lower courts that when you're
reviewing arbitral decisions you shouldn't so readily interfere with them.
Not exact matches
Against this background, the ICC Commission's Task Force of
Decisions as to Costs has
reviewed hundreds of
arbitral awards and has analysed in what manner
arbitral tribunals exercise their discretion.
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».
The
decision establishes new limitations to gaining judicial
review of arbitration rulings, a move observers say serves to further reinforce the court's long - standing deference to
arbitral awards.
Today
arbitral decisions are often characterized as jurisprudence constante, even though contradictory decisionsoccur and calls for a
review mechanismare common.
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.
C.A.: appeal allowed; motion for judicial
review dismissed; interlocutory
arbitral decision dated March 24, 2011 restored.
Quebec Superior Court: motion for judicial
review granted; interlocutory
arbitral decision dated March 24, 2011 set aside.
Another possibility is that the Sattva
decision applies to the
review of
arbitral decisions and these Ontario Court of Appeal
decisions apply to the
review of lower court
decisions.
In The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, 2018 ONCA 101, the Court held that the standard of
review applicable of SAB
arbitral decisions is reasonableness.
These two appeals were heard together because they give rise to the same main issues: the standard of
review applicable to insurance
arbitral decisions resolving priority disputes arising from the statutory accident benefits regime under the Insurance Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. I. 8, and statutory and contractual interpretation issues affecting the priority question.
Each level of people's court should establish a centralized administrative platform for the judicial
review of arbitration awards, to strengthen the informatized management and data analysis of cases regarding applications to confirm the validity of an arbitation agreement, cases regarding applications to cancel or enforce arbitration awards of our domestic arbitration institutions, applications to recognize and enforce Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macau Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Region arbitration awards, cases regarding applications to recognize and enforce foreign
arbitral awards, and cases relating to the judicial
review of arbitration such as refusal to accept, reject the filing, or objection to jurisdiction and others relating to the confirmation of the validity of an arbitration agreement; the effective guarantee of the correct application of law and of a unified yardstick for judicial
decision - making.
Therefore, the only remedy to overturn the
decision of an
arbitral tribunal in Newfoundland and Labrador is an application for judicial
review.