The Business Law Reports
[2021] Bus LR 1788
Queen’s Bench Division
NWA and another v NVF and others
[2021] EWHC 2666 (Comm)
2021 Sept 29;Oct 8
Calver J
Arbitration— Arbitrator— Jurisdiction— Arbitration agreement requiring parties to mediate disputes before referring them to arbitration— Defendants referring dispute allegedly without complying with mediation requirement— Arbitral tribunal in partial award ruling failure to comply with requirement not going to tribunal’s jurisdiction to determine dispute— Whether award constituting ruling on substantive jurisdiction and therefore susceptible to challenge—
Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), ss 9(4), 30(1), 67