ARBITRATION – international arbitration – enforcement of award – where supervisory court appointed the arbitral tribunal – whether composition of the arbitral tribunal was in accordance with the agreement of the parties – comity – whether enforcing court should accept that the appointment of the tribunal by the supervisory court was in accordance with the agreement of the parties

ARBITRATION – international arbitration – enforcement of award – nature of the burden of proving a ground for non-enforcement – whether discretion to enforce award should nevertheless be exercised – nature of the discretion

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – settlement – where parties settled “in principle” – where judgment was complete subject to administrative matters prior to settlement – whether Court can hand down judgment notwithstanding settlement “in principle” – Court has a discretion to hand down judgment where it is in the public interest to do so

Tim Castle SC appeared for the Respondent.

Reasons for the decision can be found here.