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English High Court upholds two challenges to jurisdiction
- Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- March 22 2013
The English High Court has recently set aside two arbitration awards under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (1996 Act) on the grounds of lack
“West Tankers” saga continues: court rejects tribunal’s finding that it did not have jurisdiction to award damages for breach of an obligation to arbitrate
- Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- April 18 2012
In the most recent of a long running series of decisions arising from a collision between the Appellant’s vessel, the “Front Comor”, and a Sicilian pier owned by the vessel’s charterers, the English court has found that the majority of the tribunal was wrong to decline jurisdiction over a claim for equitable damages for breach of an arbitration clause
