The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2021] AC 1083
Supreme Court
Halliburton Co v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd and others (International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and others intervening)
[2020] UKSC 48
2019 Nov 12, 13;
2020 Nov 27
2020 Nov 27
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lady Black, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden JJSC
Arbitration— Arbitrator— Removal— Court-appointed arbitrator subsequently accepting appointment in other related arbitration as appointee of party to first arbitration— Later appointment not disclosed to other party to first arbitration— Application to remove arbitrator on ground circumstances giving rise to “justifiable doubts as to his impartiality”— Whether test same as common law test for apparent bias— Whether arbitrator under duty to disclose later appointment— Whether breach of such duty giving grounds for removal—
Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), ss 24(1)(a), 33