Bartek Rutkowski

Key takeaways Last year, we reported on a judgment of the English Court of Appeal (CoA) in the case of MUR Shipping BV v.

Click here to listen to the audio In the first of a miniseries exploring the proposed reforms to the law governing arbitration in England and Wales, the Arbitration Act 1996, Dubai-based Antonia Birt and London-based Liam Hart explore the proposal to give arbitrators the power to dispose of claims on a summary basis (that is, without waiting for a full trial) with host, Bartek Rutkowski.

Key takeaways The Law Commission has proposed a reform of the Arbitration Act 1996 to simplify the process for challenging an arbitration tribunal’s substantive jurisdiction. The main thrust of the proposed reform is to ensure that, where the tribunal has already ruled on its jurisdiction, and the objecting party participated in the process, then any subsequent challenge to an award under s.