Topic: Public policy

Ukraine’s Supreme Court has affirmed that an SCC emergency arbitrator award restraining the forcible sale of assets of a Russian state-owned bank cannot be enforced.

27 January 2021

A Swiss court has upheld an ICC award that blocked a Panamanian company from recovering agency commissions from a client after it emerged the agent’s founder had paid “kickbacks” to one of the client’s employees.

21 January 2021

A court in Cairo has upheld an ICC award requiring an Egyptian state authority to pay US$490 million to a Kuwaiti-led consortium for terminating a contract to build a container terminal facility at the port of Damietta.

14 December 2020

A US court has confirmed a US$562 million ICC award against Indian state-owned satellite company Antrix, rejecting suggestions that the tribunal had been improperly constituted.

29 October 2020

The Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands has enforced a Brazilian airline’s US$55 million ICC award against two private equity funds, ruling that the arbitrators were entitled to decide the case on a legal ground not pleaded by the parties.

19 August 2020

Ila Kapoor and Shruti Sabharwal of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co consider whether the Indian Supreme Court’s recent refusal to enforce a foreign award on public policy grounds has turned the clock backwards.

07 May 2020