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[2021] WLR(D) 521
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 providing for parties to seek to mediate dispute before referring to arbitration— Parties not mediating dispute arising but defendants commencing arbitration— Arbitrator accepting jurisdiction and delivering award— Whether claimants’ challenge to reference to arbitration in light of failure to mediate going to substantive jurisdiction of tribunal rendering award susceptible to challenge before court—
Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), ss 9, 30(1)(a)(c), 67