The Annulment of Arbitral Awards is a book that offers the most extensive survey of the field available, presenting a systematic and detailed comparative analysis of annulment regimes across thirty-two key jurisdictions worldwide in country-specific reports authored by leading scholars and practitioners. A party seeking to annul an arbitral award has only one recourse: an application to a national court for setting aside, invoking specific and exhaustive domestic grounds for annulment. Given that arbitration laws vary among jurisdictions, a comprehensive understanding of annulment regimes across countries and legal traditions is essential for all those involved in the arbitral process.
What’s in this book:
The following aspects of each country’s annulment regime are addressed:
Each report elucidates its country’s judicial approach to assessing applicable grounds in practice, considering the scope of review, evidentiary standards, and guiding principles of judicial restraint in arbitral matters.
How this will help you:
The book offers a practical and insightful guide to the annulment process of relevance beyond the representative jurisdictions covered. It will thus serve as a valuable worldwide reference for counsel and other practitioners, arbitration scholars, state courts adjudicating setting-aside applications, and arbitrators seeking to ensure the enforceability of their awards.
