In response to the argument that the trial judge had erred in declining to declare a mistrial the Court of Appeal found, oddly, that to allow a trial judge to ignore the juries findings would come perilously close to
setting aside an award on the basis that it was inordinately high, which power is only reserved for the Court of Appeal.
NMLK subsequently sought to
set aside the Award on the basis of alleged fraud (an argument raised late in the arbitration) and the failure of two arbitrators to disclose links to expert witnesses who gave evidence in the arbitration.
The court nevertheless refused to
set aside the award on the basis that, since interest was due to the claimant, the party ordered to pay interest had suffered no «substantial injustice».
The court therefore
set aside the award on the basis that the tribunal had not been constituted properly.
105, 731 S.W. 2d 789 (1987), which states that the party attempting to
set aside the award on such a basis bears the burden of proof.
Not exact matches
The judge also
awarded the sum of N100, 000 in favour of each appellant in the matter, saying, «the proceedings and other decisions taken
on May 21, 2016 at the National Convention are hereby
set aside.»
In a response to Friday's decision, NIH spokesperson John Burklow said NIH doesn't
set aside fixed amounts of money for studying adult or embryonic stem cells, but instead makes
award decisions based
on scientific merit and relevance to NIH's priorities.
If a payment is
awarded based
on that appraisal, it can be
set aside in two ways.
To
set aside this setback, it is important to evolve mechanisms where reforestation can
award an ROI (Return
On Investment), albeit at patient capital Internal Rates of Return (IRRs).
The court reasoned that the wording of the arbitration agreement had not made it clear that the parties regarded the venue as critically important.898 The courts of the United States have similarly considered that the «appropriate standard of review would be to
set aside an
award based
on a procedural violation only if such violation caused substantial prejudice to the complaining party.»
A domestic
award may be
set aside on grounds similar to Article 34 of the Model Law or it may be appealed
on a point of law.
The case concerned arbitral proceedings in which an arbitral
award was
set aside on the basis of a party being unable to present its case.
First, the question of the relationship between the decision of the court in
setting aside proceedings and its impact
on the arbitration commenced after the
setting aside of the
award.
Symbion Power LLC v Venco Imtiaz Construction Company [2017] EWHC 348 (TCC)-- We acted successfully for the defendant, Venco, in this High Court case where the Court rejected an application to
set aside an ICC arbitration
award for serious irregularity under section 68 (2)(d) of the Arbitration Act 1996
on the basis that the tribunal had failed to deal with issues which were put to it.
Lesotho sought to
set aside the
award in its entirety
on a number of grounds, which can be summarized as follows:
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 Court of Appeal's Sanum judgment had also involved a
set aside application, but concerned a preliminary
award on jurisdiction only.
In terms of procedure, Lesotho applied for the
award to be
set aside either under § 10 (3) of the Singapore International Arbitration Act (the «IAA») or, in the alternative, under Article 34 (2)(a)(iii) of the UNCITRAL Model Law
on Commercial Arbitration (the «Model Law»), which is incorporated into Singapore law by virtue of § 3 (1) of the IAA.
Kazakhstan therefore turned to Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm in order to attempt to have the
award set aside (we have written before
on how domestic courts exercise supervisory jurisdiction in ISDS).
The Court of Appeal allows the appeal
on the second ground (finding it unnecessary to «deal with» palpable and overriding error (See para. 3)-RRB-,
sets aside the
award for aggravated damages.
The losing party in the arbitration sought to
set aside the
award, arguing that the tribunal had exceeded its mandate by basing its decision
on a review of related transactions governed by other agreements involving other parties.
There is a natural justice risk that an eventual
award may be
set aside if the losing party could show that the med - arbiter based her decision
on confidential (undisclosed) information.
For the purposes of section 103 (5), an «adjournment» means a pause
on the English court's decision
on enforcement while an application for
setting aside or suspension of the
award is pending before the court of the country in, or under the law of which, the
award was made.
The BC Court of Appeal
set aside the reduction of support
on the basis the trial judge failed to first determine whether there was a material change of circumstances, and also failed to properly interprete the arbitration
award without considering the arbitrator's reasons, the application of the Family Law Act and applicable case law.
In another ground - breaking case, the Singapore High Court has
set aside an investor - State arbitral
award on the basis that the tribunal exceeded its jurisdiction...
[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.
An ICC
award won by the Middle Eastern branch of Audi Volkswagen has been
set aside in Paris
on the grounds of a German arbitrator's non-disclosure — with the court dismissing a suggestion that a legal directory had incorrectly represented his firm's work for an affiliate car company, Porsche.
It found that it was common ground between the experts that under applicable Russian arbitration law at least one valid ground to
set aside the
award had been present, which related to the obligations
on the arbitrators to disclose certain potential conflicts of interest.
If the
award is subject to an action for
setting aside in the country in which, or under the law of which, it is made («the country of origin»), the foreign court before which enforcement of the
award is sought may adjourn its decision
on enforcement (Article VI).
In a decision recently posted
on the Swedish Arbitration Portal a party sought to
set aside an
award alleging, among others, that by disregarding evidence the tribunal exceeded its mandate and incurred in a procedural error
(a) The Defendant (the «KRG») applied
on 3 July 2017 to
set aside the Order of this Court made ex parte
on 29 May 2017 by which it recognised and, subject to its terms, enforced two arbitration
awards made in London under the auspices of the LCIA and permitted alternative service of the order made and other documents
on the KRG's London solicitors who had acted for them in the arbitration.
With respect to (4) and (5), the ONCA
set aside the motion judge's lump sum spousal support order, without prejudice to the mother's right to bring another motion for lump sum support, noting that the motions judge's analysis
on this issue was lacking and that his approach supported the conclusion that the underlying purpose of his lump sum spousal support
award was merely to convert the mother's unpaid equalization payment into lump sum spousal support following the father's bankruptcy.
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».
Maximov's application for enforcement of the
Award centred
on the question of whether the Russian judgments
setting aside the
Award should be recognised.
The Moscow Arbitrazh Court («Moscow Court «-RRB-
set aside the
Award in June 2011
on the pleaded grounds of the arbitrators» non-disclosure relating to the expert witnesses as well as
on the separate grounds of public policy and non-arbitrability (the latter two both being grounds not relied
on by NMLK in the
set aside application).
The judge subsequently explored whether the three grounds relied
on by the Moscow Court to
set aside the
Award were «so wrong as to be evidence of bias».
In other words, under Singapore law, while a party that wishes to challenge the tribunal's decision
on its own jurisdiction has a choice of electing between the active remedy under Art 16 (3) of the Model Law and the passive remedy of resisting enforcement, such a party does not have a choice of electing between the active remedy under Art 16 (3) of the Model Law and the active remedy of
setting aside the
award under Art 34 (2)(iii) of the Model Law.
The use of the word may gives the enforcing court a discretion as to whether to refuse to enforce an
award that has been
set aside and there is little consensus internationally
on the approach to be adopted.
On a successful challenge under section 68, the court can remit the
award to the tribunal for reconsideration,
set aside the
award, or declare the
award to be of no effect either in whole or in part.
A Richmond Circuit Court
sets aside a $ 250,000 jury
award for plaintiff in her suit against defendant Chesterfield County police officer
on a claim of malicious prosecution; applying a 2011 Virginia Supreme Court case, the court says defendant officer investigated...
Section 46 (d) provides that where the court is satisfied that an application for the
setting aside or for the suspension of the
award has been made to a competent authority referred to in subsection (b) of section 46, the court may, if it considers proper to do so, postpone the order to enforce the
award and may also order the respondent to provide appropriate security
on the application of the party claiming enforcement of the
award.
On appeal, the order was
set aside as the husband could not be considered an «insurer against all hazards», however the appeal court also considered that the wife's financial predicament could be attributed to «misfortune rather than mismanagement» and invited written submissions as to the «territory between the extremes» of an outright dismissal of the wife's claim and the substantial sum
awarded at first instance.
The Ontario Superior Court confirmed the established legal principle that a court has no power to
award the costs of a disciplinary hearing where the hearing panel's decision is
set aside on a judicial review.
Drawing
on Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co., 2002 SCC 18, if an
award of punitive damages, together with the compensatory damages
awarded, «produces a total sum that is so «inordinately large» that it exceeds what is «rationally» required to punish the defendant, it will be reduced or
set aside on appeal».
Advised a European state
on whether an LCIA
award can be
set aside on account of alleged failures to take into account EU law.
[62] Putting the test the other way around, «if the
award of punitive damages when added to compensatory damages, produces a total sum that is so «inordinately large» that it exceeds what is «rationally» required to punish the defendant, it will be reduced or
set aside on appeal,»: see Whiten, at para. 109.
However,
on appeal in October 2015, the Court
set aside the contempt finding as there was no outstanding order at the time to be the subject of contempt, ordered another access review to be held by February 2016, and reduced the costs
award to $ 200,000.
On 29th April, 2013 the respondent lodged Arbitration Petition No. 406 of 2013 against the claimant in this court under section 34 and 12 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 inter alia praying for
setting aside the partial
award dated 7th December, 2009 and partial final
award dated 30th January, 2013 issued by the learned sole arbitrator and also applied for declaration that both these
awards were null and void and of no effect.
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set aside, such
award would be a decree of this Court and would be executed by the claimant by filing criminal proceedings against the respondent based
on such perverse finding which are without jurisdiction, such
award would be thus in conflict with public policy under Section 34 of the Act and even under the narrower ground of public policy while considering the objection to the enforcement of a foreign
award as held by the SC in case of Shri Lal Mahal Ltd..