Jurisdiction: consecutive contracts

In CAFI - Commodity & Freight Integrators DMCC V GTCS Trading DMCC [2025] EWHC 1350 (Comm); [2025] 1 Lloyd's Rep 603 the arbitral tribunal appointed to resolve a dispute under a contract declined jurisdiction to consider whether that contract had been subsequently rendered void by the express terms of a later contract itself containing an arbitration clause. Henshaw J concluded that a dispute as to the effect of the second contract fell within the arbitration clause in the first contract. There were also issues of serious irregularity and error of law in the event that the jurisdictional challenge had failed.

CAFI: the facts