NDK Ltd v HUO Holding Ltd

Subject Matter

ARBITRATION — Award — Challenge to award — Claimant and defendants shareholders in foreign registered special purpose vehicle — Parties entering into shareholder agreement containing arbitration clause — Claimant bringing court proceedings framed solely by reference to special purpose vehicle’s articles of association — Defendants contending proceedings in breach of arbitration clause and obtaining anti-suit relief from arbitral tribunal — Claimant invoking right to challenge award as to tribunal’s “substantive jurisdiction” — Whether grant of anti-suit relief jurisdictional and therefore susceptible to challenge — Whether differences in character between articles of association and shareholders’ contract preventing proceedings being within scope of arbitration clause — Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), ss 30, 67

[2022] EWHC 1682 (Comm); [2022] Bus LR 761; [2023] 1 All ER (Comm) 603; [2023] 1 Lloyd's Rep 183; [2022] WLR(D) 289, QBD