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The case summaries below are not official or authoritative. Unless otherwise noted, cases were heard by a panel of 5 judges. Cases involving Scots law are highlighted in orange. Cases involving Northern Irish law are highlighted in green. List of judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered in 2009
Insurance law, arbitration: Where an arbitration agreement does not specify a governing law then the law of the underlying main contract will ordinarily govern the arbitration agreement. Where the main contract does not specify a governing law then it is for the courts to determine the law with which the arbitration agreement is most closely ...
In 2011, the government of Mauritius challenged Sir Christopher Greenwood's role in the arbitration proceedings on the grounds that his role as a UK Foreign and Commonwealth legal adviser could bias him in favour of the United Kingdom's claims to the Chagos Islands. However, this was rejected by the tribunal on the basis that this "neither ...
Nations regulate arbitration through a variety of laws. The main body of law applicable to arbitration is normally contained either in the national Private International Law Act (as is the case in Switzerland) or in a separate law on arbitration (as is the case in England, Republic of Korea and Jordan [24]). In addition to this, a number of ...
The institute's journal, Arbitration, has continued to be published since its inception in 1915. Over that time the journal has contributed over 5,000 articles on arbitration and dispute resolution in its many and varied forms. Today the journal incorporates all aspects of dispute resolving within its academic and practitioner output.
Mutual mistake at common law Hillas v Arcos: 1932 All E.R. 494 The court may imply terms into a contract based on the previous business dealings of the parties. Woolmington v DPP: 1935 A.C. 462 H.L.(E) It is always incumbent on the prosecution in a criminal case to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
Greece v United Kingdom [1952] ICJ 1 (also called the Ambatielos Case) is a public international law case, concerning state responsibility for economic damage. The International Court of Justice held that the UK had to enter into arbitration under the terms of a treaty it had made with Greece, although the ICJ itself held it had no jurisdiction to hear and decide upon the substantive dispute ...
The Arbitration Act 1979 (c. 42) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed arbitration law in England and Wales.Prior to 1979, arbitration law was based on the Arbitration Act 1950, which allowed use of the "case stated" procedure and other methods of judicial intervention, which marked English arbitration law as significantly different from that of other jurisdictions.