Arbitration: enforcement of foreign award

In Kei v Hua She Asset Management (Shanghai) Co Ltd [2022] EWHC 662 (Comm) Julia Dias QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, considered and rejected an application to set aside an order enforcing a Shanghai arbitration award. The ground for the application was section 103(2)(c) of the Arbitration Act 1996, namely that the applicant had not been given notice of the arbitration proceedings or had otherwise been unable to present his case.

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