Resolv­ing dis­putes on the evid­ence: To what extent ar­bit­ral fact-finding might fall within the su­per­vis­ory jur­is­dic­tion of Eng­lish courts

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Al­ex­an­der Trukhtan­ov ex­am­ines the re­la­tion­ship between ar­bit­ral fact-finding and the su­per­vis­ory jur­is­dic­tion of the Eng­lish courts through a recent High Court de­cision con­cern­ing a chal­lenge to an ar­bit­ra­tion award under sec­tion 68 of the Ar­bit­ra­tion Act 1996. The de­cision re­af­firms ju­di­cial re­spect for ar­bit­ral awards and dis­cour­ages chal­lenges based merely on in­fe­li­cit­ies of lan­guage.