The Weekly Law Reports
[2005] 3 WLR 129
House of Lords
Lesotho Highlands Development Authority v Impregilo SpA and others
[2005] UKHL 43
2005 May 9,
10;
June 30
June 30
Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR, Lord Scott of Foscote and Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
Arbitration
— Award
— “Serious irregularity”
— Contract stipulating currency of account and applicable law
— Tribunal making award in different currency
— Pre-award interest ordered by reference to procedural law of arbitration rather than applicable law of contract
— Whether errors of law
— Whether excess of power
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Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), ss. 48(4), 49(3), 68