Swiss Arbitration Decisions

The case involved two Lybian companies and a construction dispute. There were two successive contracts with different jurisdiction clauses. A dispute arose and ICC arbitration proceedings were initiated in Zürich under the first contract (a FIDIC contract). When confronted with a jurisdictional defense raised in the arbitration, the Arbitral Tribunal (Chairman Anis F.Kassim, with arbitrators Loukas Mistelis and Mohmmed Ibrahim Werfalli) upheld its jurisdiction.