Benjamin Pilling KC and Daniel Khoo successfully resist challenge to enforcement of €20 million arbitration award
On 11 October 2018 Mrs Justice Cockerill handed down judgment in the Commercial Court in an application to resist the enforcement of a €20 million Paris-seated ICC arbitral award (the “Award”). The grounds for resisting enforcement were witness intimidation, lack of due process and lack of jurisdiction. Eastern European Engineering Ltd (“EEEL”) terminated six contracts […]
17th October 2018
Sponsorship of the SCL Hong Kong One Day International Conference
4 Pump Court are delighted to be sponsoring the SCL Hong Kong One Day International Conference again this year. This year’s conference will focus on the theme of “Defects, Quality and Workmanship – Presenting the Evidence”. Ben Pilling KC will chair the afternoon session on expert witnesses and evidence. Ben’s session will review and discuss […]
Benjamin Pilling KC and Daniel Khoo obtain freezing injunction in €19 million arbitration enforcement claim
On 20 June 2018 Christopher Butcher J handed down judgment in the Commercial Court on an application for freezing relief in a long-running dispute between two Seychellois companies, Eastern European Engineering Ltd (“EEEL”) and Vijay Construction (Proprietary) Ltd (“Vijay”). EEEL was successful in a Paris-seated ICC arbitration, and following that arbitration there has been litigation […]
21st June 2018
Symbion Power LLC v Venco Imtiaz Construction Company
Benjamin Pilling KC appeared for the successful Defendant in Symbion Power LLC v Venco Imtiaz Construction Company [2017] EWHC 348 (TCC). Jefford J rejected an application to set a side an ICC arbitration award for serious irregularity under section 68(2)(d) of the Arbitration Act 1996 on the basis that the tribunal had failed to deal […]
10th March 2017
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