Set aside an international arbitral award

Accountability, Anonymity of arbitrators, Apparent bias, arbitrators’ conduct, Breach of natural justice, Fair hearing, International arbitration, Scope of Confidentiality, Set aside an international arbitral award, Trust

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The judgment of the Singapore International Commercial Court (the “Court”) in DJO v DJP and others [2024] SGHC(I) 24 (“DJO”) provides helpful guidance on when an award may be set aside for breach of natural justice. While setting-aside applications do not generally succeed given the well-established principle of minimal curial intervention, the Court undoubtedly reached…

Canada, Domestic arbitration, Jurisdiction, NAFTA, Set aside an international arbitral award

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In July and August 2024, the Court of Appeal for Ontario (CA) and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (SCJ) have addressed critical questions concerning the jurisdiction of arbitration tribunals. Two noteworthy decisions have emerged: the first shedding light on the tribunal’s authority to correctly apply matters within its own jurisdiction, and the second on…

Arbitral Award, Enforcement, Germany, Primacy Principle, Set aside an international arbitral award, Singapore, Transnational Issue Estoppel, USA

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Large arbitral awards have generally given rise to multi-jurisdictional post-award litigation (see Yukos). The Deutsche Telekom v India saga is a similar instance, with the Republic of India (“India”) having challenged the arbitral awards before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (“seat court”) and the courts in Germany, Singapore, and the United States (“US”) (“enforcement courts”)….

English courts, Fraud, Nigeria, Set aside an international arbitral award

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A recent decision, Nigeria vs P&ID, issued by the English High Court of Justice, has drawn significant global public attention. This decision is notable for several reasons. It is rare for English courts to overturn arbitration awards. However, it is the exceptional circumstances underlying the dispute that were truly extraordinary and render this case newsworthy….

Chile, Latin America, Set aside an arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award

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In 2004, Chile enacted Law No. 19.971 on International Commercial Arbitration (“LACI”) based on the UNCITRAL Model Law of 1985 (“Model Law”). This note describes, without assessing its merits, how the process to resolve an application to set aside awards has evolved in practice in Chile (“Application for Set Aside” or “Application”), the sole remedy…

Amparo, Bolivia, Emergency Arbitrator, Latin America, Set aside an international arbitral award

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Generally, by virtue of the principle of territoriality, the national courts of a State have jurisdiction only over persons and acts committed within the territory. In this context, the national courts of a State do not have jurisdiction to set aside an award or an order issued in the context of an arbitration whose seat…

Chile, International Commercial Arbitration, Latin America, Pro arbitration, Set aside an international arbitral award

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On 12 May 2023, the Santiago Court of Appeals (“Court”) denied EP Petroecuador’s (“Petroecuador”) (Ecuador national oil company) petition to set aside a US$63 million international commercial arbitration award. The decision is consistent with the Court’s history of denying petitions to set aside international commercial arbitration awards and marks an important milestone for Servicios Integrados…

Authentication, Enforcement, New York Convention, Set aside an international arbitral award, Vietnam

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A recent decision of the Hanoi People’s Court, Decision No. 12/2023/QD-PPT dated 4 July 2023 (“Decision 12”), held that a power-of-attorney (“POA”) signed outside of Vietnam and authorizing the signing and filing of an arbitration in Vietnam must have received consular authentication. In doing so, the Court clarifies the approach taken by the Ho Chi…

Annulment, Arbitral seat, Due process, Party Representation, Powers of the tribunal, Public Policy, Seat of the arbitration, Set aside an arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award, VIAC, Vietnam

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Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC Vietnam)

Under the Law on Commercial Arbitration 2010 (“LCA”), both domestic and international arbitral awards can be set aside on the basis that the arbitral award contravenes the “fundamental principles of Vietnamese law.” This concept, however, is undefined and broad, causing much uncertainty, especially in light of decisions of the Vietnamese courts. In 2020, the People’s…

Caribbean, Challenge of Arbitral Award, Public Interest, Set aside an international arbitral award, Trinidad & Tobago

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Typically, when a country is labelled as an “arbitration-friendly jurisdiction”, contracting parties are assured that the Judiciary of that country will respect their autonomy and choice to resolve their disputes privately. Usually, courts in a pro-arbitration jurisdictions will likely adopt a hands-off approach and decline to interfere with the outcome of a decision to arbitrate….

Procedural Error, Set aside an arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award, Sweden, Swedish Arbitration Act

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On 1 December 2021, the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm rejected Kibar Enerji Anonim Sirketi’s request to set aside an arbitral award in a dispute with Gazprom Export LLC over contract pricing of natural gas. Kibar alleged that the arbitral tribunal had exceeded its mandate and had also committed a procedural error when issuing…

Appeal, Procedural Error, Procedural Fairness, Procedural Order, Set aside an arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award, Singapore, Witness

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It is trite that an award may be set aside if there has been a breach of the rules of natural justice. This may arise from, among others, a tribunal’s procedural ruling. However, during the arbitration, there is no recourse for parties to challenge such procedural rulings. This was the situation in CBS v CBP…

Private International Law Act, Set aside an international arbitral award, Supreme Court, Switzerland

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Swiss substantive law allows a debtor to pay a debt in the national currency of the place of payment even though the debt is actually owed in a foreign currency, except for cases where the contract expressly requires fulfillment of the debt in “actual currency” by using the term “actual” or words to that effect…

Applicable Law, Arbitration Agreement, Set aside an international arbitral award, Sweden

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In a recent judgement in the proceedings for setting aside an arbitral award, the Swedish Court of Appeal addressed issues concerning the law applicable to an arbitration agreement, the validity of an arbitration agreement, the due process standard applicable in cross-examination, and the procedural error of rendering an award without considering all the arguments raised…

Enforcement of an award that was set aside, France, New York Convention, Public Policy, Set aside an international arbitral award

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An award set-side underlines that it has been annulled in the jurisdiction in which it has been rendered. The grounds for setting aside an award are provided by the UNCITRAL Model Law and are quite similar throughout numerous jurisdictions. Article V of the New York Convention (‘NYC’) presents a set-aside award as one of the…

Enforcement, India, Public Policy, Set aside an international arbitral award

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In a recent decision, National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) v. Alimenta S.A. (“NAFED”), the Indian Supreme Court (“SC”) refused to enforce a foreign award on the ground of it being opposed to public policy under Section 7 (1) (b) (ii) of the Foreign Awards (Recognition and Enforcement) Act, 1961 (“the 1961 Act”)….

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As reported in earlier blog posts on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 1) See, e.g., Zoltán Novák, New Arbitration Act in Hungary, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 15 October 2017; Alexandra Bognár, Hungary: Are Interim Measures Hard to Enforce?, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 18 July 2017; Ioana Knoll-Tudor, The 2018 Hungarian Arbitration Act: Implications of the New Setting Aside…

India, Public Policy, Set aside an international arbitral award

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The decision of the Supreme Court of India (“SC”) in Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. v. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) (“Ssansyong”), has led to three notable developments: (1) it clarifies the scope of the “public policy” ground for setting aside an award as amended by the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act 2015…

Annulment, Recognition and enforcement of arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award

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The United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention”) prescribes mandatory, uniform international rules for the recognition and enforcement of international arbitration agreements and awards in the Contracting States. Pursuant to Article V(1)(e) of the New York Convention, an award may be denied recognition and enforcement by the…

Enforcement, Set aside an international arbitral award, Singapore Court of Appeal

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Introduction On 23 July 2018, this blog posted a commentary entitled “Choice of Remedies Doctrine – A Jack-In-The-Box?” The commentary explored the Singapore High Court’s decision in Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Ltd v Avant Garde Maritime Services (Private) Limited [2018] SGHC 78 (“Rakna”), and its implications.  The commentary also revisited the Singapore Court of Appeal’s decision…

Set aside an arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award, Spain

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Part I In a judgment dated 5 April 2018 (Case nº 6/2017), the Madrid High Court of Justice (“TSJM”), the competent court to hear applications to set aside an award when the seat of the arbitration is Madrid, set aside an arbitration award on public policy grounds after finding that the tribunal “[…] unjustifiably omitted…

Annulment, Bias, Conflicts of interest, Disclosure, Duty to investigate, England, IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest, Impartiality, Independence, Japan, Non-disclosure, Set aside an arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award, Switzerland

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On December 12, 2017, the Supreme Court of Japan rendered its first decision on the setting aside of an arbitral award based on an arbitrator’s failure to disclose facts allegedly constituting a conflict of interest, reasoning that, in order for the award to be set aside on this ground, it is necessary that the arbitrator…

Arbitration, Arbitration Proceedings, Enforcement, Enforcement of an arbitration clause, International arbitration, Set aside an arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award, Turkmenistan

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The specter of communism that was once lingering over the Europe has long faded away, and the alliance, one of the biggest socialist experiments in the history of mankind, that stood to safeguard and promote its ideals has failed. In 1991 out of the remains of the Soviet Union emerged five independent Central Asian states….

Arbitration, Arbitration Awards, Arbitration Proceedings, Competition Law, European Law, European Union, France, Set aside an arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award

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On the 7th of July 2016 the Court of Justice of the European Union (“Court” or “CJEU”) published the judgment in the Genentech case (Case C 567/14), awaited with great interest both by IP and competition practitioners, on one side, and by arbitration practitioners, on the other. IP and competition law practitioners’ interest lies in the…