Supreme Court Confirms Parties' Freedom to Appoint Arbitrators on Religious Grounds
Client/Legal Alert
July 2011
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This removes the cloud that has been sitting over London as a seat of arbitration since the decision of the Court of Appeal, and will be a relief to the arbitration institutions as it removes any doubt about the legality of institutional rules which provide that a sole arbitrator or chairman of a tribunal may not have the same nationality as any party unless all parties agree.