UNION OF INDIA V RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LTD AND ANOTHER

[2022] EWHC 1407 (Comm), Queen’s Bench Division, Commercial Court, Sir Ross Cranston sitting as a High Court Judge, 9 June 2022

Arbitration – Res judicata and abuse of process – Whether principle applied to different stages of an arbitration – Serious irregularity – Error of law – Arbitration Act 1996, sections 68 and 69

The parties entered into two production sharing contracts in 1994, relating to two oil/natural gas fields off the west coast of India, under which the respondent contractors were to carry out the exploitation of the fields at their sole risk and cost.