Republic of Kosovo v Contourglobal Kosovo LLC - 2024 EWHC 877 Comm - CL-2023-000668 - 15 April 2024
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Year
2024
Summary
This is the hearing of an appeal by the Government of Kosovo ("GOK") under section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996, by which GOK challenges a final award issued by the majority of an Arbitral Tribunal convened under the ICC Rules of Arbitration by which they held that GOK was liable to pay the defendant ("CKL") the sum of €20,053,125.63. GOK contends that the majority failed in its duty imposed by section 30(1)(a) of the Arbitration Act 1996 to act fairly and impartially between the parties by failing to give GOK an opportunity to further address the quantum issues that arose following a post-hearing procedural order that referred to the quantum issues. It is said that the failure constituted a serious irregularity under section 68(2)(a) of the 1996 Act.