Arbitration Matters September 2010

In this edition:

Court endorsement of the right to arbitrate
This case involved a situation where Court proceedings were commenced in Kazakhstan in breach of an arbitration clause and the defendant sought to enforce the clause in order to restrain the Kazakhstan proceedings.  This is a relatively common situation, but what was unusual about this case was that the defendant had no intention of commencing arbitration proceedings itself.

Stay of enforcement of New York Convention award
In this case the court set out useful guidance in respect of a stay of enforcement of a judgment on an arbitration award (as opposed to a stay of enforcement of an arbitration award itself).

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