Judicial review of arbitration awards is highly deferential- but when does it become rubber stamping? Using original … perspective. English kings and merchants helped to fashion modern arbitration. Nearly 700 years ago, small merchants traded goods … law, the 1698 Arbitration Act, did not allow courts to vacate awards for fact finding or legal errors. Great deference in …

. States such as Singapore and Australia are actively promoting their own arbitration and mediation centres, but how far can …The Norden case raised within Australia two familiar and related issues of policy in the carriage of goods by sea …, namely protectionism and foreign arbitration. In the process it answered a very practical question about the extent to which …

Important aspects of Australia's private international law - including its international commercial arbitration and … interpretative rules governing Australia's international commercial arbitration and international sales laws, identifying a legal … fulfil their trade promotion purposes. Yet Australia does not always fulfil its part of this bargain: internationally minded …

& Holding Corporation v Privalov (‘Fiona Trust’) was good law in Australia. The main arbitration clause at issue, clause 20 of …On 8 May 2019, the High Court of Australia handed down its eagerly anticipated decision in Rinehart v Hancock … Prospecting Pty Ltd. It was hoped that the High Court would clarify the Australian approach to the interpretation of arbitration …