56 More recently, the Court in Animal Welfare applied Anchorage Management and Perez in
setting aside an award of costs against the principal of a litigant company.
One factor in determining whether to
set aside an award of damages is whether the award is out of line with awards in similar cases.
Not exact matches
The Program allows contracting officers, for the first time, to
set aside specific contracts for certified WOSBs and EDWOSBs and will help federal agencies achieve the existing statutory goal
of five percent
of federal contracting dollars being
awarded to WOSBs.
Award nominations
aside, the success
of the 2013 edition has also prompted a 37 percent expansion in exhibition space for 2014 to meet increasing demand from new companies looking to increase their market presence (over a third
of confirmed exhibitors, to date, are
set to make their show debut in October).
For every contract
awarded by Sokoto government, one percent
of the total contract sum will be
set aside to fund the state's Education Development Trust Fund,...
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.»
This project took a tremendous leap forward when Erie County was
awarded $ 2 million in funds by the State Attorney General's Office out
of more than $ 12.4 million in grant funding
set aside for land banks.
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.
The American Society
of Hematology
set aside $ 9 million for its first bridge
awards this year and gave out 18
awards of $ 100,000 after reviewing 42 applications.
A state may also
set aside 10 percent
of its federal charter program funds to
award to existing charter schools, under certain conditions.
(b) After the contractor has been paid 85 percent
of the base fee and potential
award fee, the Government may withhold further payment
of the base fee and
award fee until a reserve is
set aside in an amount that the Government considers necessary to protect its interest.
The
Awards aim to challenge the perception
of hotel facilities
set aside for disabled people, which can often be viewed as joyless, poorly - designed and over-medicalised.
When airlines open a flight for booking — usually around 11 months ahead
of time — they
set aside a small number
of seats for
award travelers.
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.»
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.
The losing party once again filed for the
setting aside of the
award, this time alleging that the tribunal had not observed the decision
of the court rendered during the first
setting aside proceedings and, moreover, this led the tribunal to overlook the limitation periods included in Polish law.
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.
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
One United States court observed that the Convention does not «permit reviewing courts to police every procedural ruling made by the arbitrator and to
set aside the
award if any violation
of the -LSB-...] procedures is found.
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.
He is well versed with issues related to the enforcement
of arbitral
awards, including applications for the
setting aside of such
awards.
It is bound by the decision rendered in the
setting aside of the
award to the same extent that any other tribunal or court would be bound.
It is doubtful, however, that such exclusion
of right
of recourse extends to the
setting aside of an arbitral
award under section 48
of the Arbitration Act.
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.
In addition, punitive damage
awards may be
set aside because
of flaws in jury instructions.
The Hong Kong Court
of Appeal has recently handed down a decision in Pacific China Holdings Ltd v. Grand Pacific Holdings Ltd [1] overturning an order
of the Court
of First Instance to
set aside an ICC arbitration
award made in Hong Kong.
A recent examination
of ten years
of Swedish court practice shows that 10 %
of the challenge procedures resulted in the
award being wholly or partially
set aside.
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.
The court referred to Strasbourg jurisprudence to illustrate the fact that the ECtHR was not concerned with «merits» but with «process», and that domestic courts were afforded a margin
of appreciation concerning which
awards could or should be
set aside.
The investors insisted that the High Court did not have jurisdiction to
set aside the
award under either
of these provisions.
As a result
of its analysis, the High Court held that the tribunal's
award dealt with a dispute not contemplated by and not falling within the terms
of the submission to arbitration and therefore
set aside the
award in its entirety under Article 34 (2)(a)(iii)
of the Model Law.
Lesotho sought to
set aside the
award in its entirety on a number
of grounds, which can be summarized as follows:
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 outcome
of an appeal may be an affirmation or reversal
of the lower court ruling, a damage
award set aside or lowered, or even a re-trial with the lower court.
Following an appeal by Home Hardware the aggravated damages were
set aside and the punitive damages were reduced to $ 75,000 however, the notice
award and defamation damages in the amount
of $ 60,000 were upheld.
Shelbaya agrees that the Egyptian courts adopt a «liberal approach to arbitration», putting in place «stringent criteria» for the
setting aside of an arbitral
award, as well as routinely recognising and enforcing foreign
awards in Egypt.
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.
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.
Essar applied to the High Court under s. 68
of the Act to
set aside the
award.
The court can't
award any part
of it to the other spouse, but it could
set it
aside for spousal maintenance (alimony) or the benefit
of minor children.
One case where an
award was reportedly
set aside for a violation
of unique local law is Abnaa Al - Khalaf Co. et al. v Sayed Aghajaved Raza.
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.
The successful challenge
of an
award results in the
award being «
set aside.»
In University
of British Columbia v. Kelly, 2016 BCCA 271, the Court
of Appeal reversed the Supreme Court
of British Columbia's decision to
set aside the Tribunal's original
award.