Enforcement of award: counterclaim in enforcement proceedings

The important question before Butcher J in Selevision Saudi Co v beIN Media Group LLC [2021] EWHC 2802 (Comm) was whether an award debtor could raise a counterclaim and join a third party in enforcement proceedings brought under the New York Convention. The court’s obviously sensible ruling was that enforcement proceedings were meant to be summary and that matters falling outside the award had no place in them.

Selevision : the facts