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La Cour d’appel de l’Ontario annule une sentence arbitrale en raison d’une crainte raisonnable de partialité

Dans l’affaire Vento Motorcycles, Inc. v. Mexico (l« affaire Vento »), la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario (la « CAO ») a annulé une sentence prononcée par une formation arbitrale (la « sentence »), en raison d’une crainte...more

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Ontario Court of Appeal Strikes Important Balance in Applying Exceptions to the Kompetenz-Kompetenz Principle

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Last week, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision Lochan v Binance Holdings Limited, 2024 ONCA 784 [Binance], in which it refused to stay a class action proceeding in favour of arbitration. In doing so, the Court...more

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La Cour d’appel de l’Ontario confirme la portée limitée du contrôle judiciaire des sentences arbitrales

Dans l’affaire Clayton v. Canada (Attorney General), la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario (la « CAO ») a rejeté une tentative de faire annuler une sentence arbitrale pour des motifs liés à la compétence du tribunal arbitral et à...more

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Court of Appeal Confirms Limited Scope of Judicial Oversight of Arbitral Awards

In Clayton v. Canada (Attorney General), the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an attempt to set aside an arbitral award on jurisdictional and public policy grounds, confirming that the grounds on which arbitral awards may be...more

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Alberta Court Articulates Important Exceptions to the Kompetenz-Kompetenz Principle and the Scope of Arbitration Clauses

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A recent decision of the Alberta Court of King’s Bench in Orica Canada Inc v ARVOS GmbH, 2024 ABKB 97 [Orica] has attracted considerable attention among members of the arbitration bar. In it, the Court of King’s Bench...more

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Ontario : Une cour refuse d’annuler une sentence arbitrale malgré des craintes raisonnables de partialité d’un des arbitres

Dans l’affaire Vento Motorcycles, Inc. v United Mexican States, la Cour supérieure de justice de l’Ontario (la « Cour ») a rejeté une demande d’annulation de sentence arbitrale (la « sentence ») rendue par un tribunal composé...more

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Ontario Court Declines to Set Aside Arbitral Award Despite Reasonable Apprehension of Arbitrator’s Bias

In Vento Motorcycles, Inc. v. United Mexican States, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Court) rejected an application to set aside an arbitral award (the Award), which a three-arbitrator Tribunal issued, on the basis of...more

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Arbitration Angle - 2023 Edition - Reflecting On A Year Of Decisions And Looking Ahead

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UN Member States Adopt Code of Conduct for Arbitrators in Investor-State Disputes - At its 56th annual session held in Vienna in July 2023, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) formally...more

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Ontario Court of Appeal Provides Clarity Regarding Appeals of Domestic Arbitral Awards

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Commercial arbitration is widely perceived as a pathway to obtaining a final and binding decision (styled as an "award") that is not subject to appeal. However, this is not always the case in Canada. The degree of finality of...more

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Modifications récentes aux règlements du CIRDI : efficacité et accessibilité accrues

Le 1er juillet 2022, des modifications apportées aux règlements du Centre international pour le règlement des différends relatifs aux investissements (le « CIRDI ») sont entrées en vigueur (les « modifications »). Membre...more

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Recent Amendments to the ICSID Rules Enhance Efficiency and Accessibility

On July 1, 2022, amendments to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) rules and regulations came into effect. ICSID, one of the organizations of the World Bank Group, is an institution for...more

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Set-Aside Applications Cannot Be Used to Reargue Merits of the Claim

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The Ontario trial court has once again emphasized that an application to set aside an arbitral award under Article 34 of the Model Law is not to be used as an opportunity to reargue the merits of the claim. Under Article...more

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Venezuela Mines for a Reversal in Federal Appeals Court

Venezuela is taking its fight over a $1.4 billion arbitral award to the District of Columbia’s federal court of appeals. The award capped a bitter dispute between Venezuela and Crystallex International Corporation, a...more

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Keeping up with the Convention: Ontario Modernizes Its International Commercial Arbitration Regime

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A new statutory regime governing international commercial arbitration came into effect in Ontario in March 2017, with the International Commercial Arbitration Act, 2017, SO 2017, c 2, replacing the International Commercial...more

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International Arbitration Newsletter - July 2016

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Privy Council clarifies the nature of arbitration clauses, but uncertainties about the clauses’ effect still remain. “Non-exclusive” arbitration clauses provide that disputes “may” be referred to arbitration (rather than...more

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