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Award annulled for violation of due process
May 26, 2010

The case is quite interesting because  most of the appeals of which the Swiss Supreme Court is seized against international arbitral awards are rejected, but this one was granted in part and the award was annulled.

Case information

Docket number: 
4A_433/2009
Original language: 
French
Published: 
29 ASA Bull 673 (2011)
Parties
Appellant: 
X.__
Respondent: 
Y.__ Inc.
Counsel
Appellant: 
Geisinger Elliott
Wilcke Alexandra Johnson
Respondent: 
Brown-Berset Dominique
Rordorf Héloïse
PDF version of the translation: 
PDF icon 26 mai 2010 4A 433 2009.pdf
Chairman: 
Patocchi Paolo Michele
Arbitrator (s): 
Moed Peniel
Peacock Robert T.
Federal Tribunal recalls that procedural mistakes or a decision erroneous in substance are not sufficient to create the appearance that an arbitrator or an arbitral tribunal is biased
June 27, 2012

This quite interesting opinion is the second judgment of the Federal Tribunal in a case involving an American company which had outsourced the works for an airbase in Iraq to a Turkish company. The 2004 contract contained an ICC arbitration clause with venue in Geneva.

Case information

Docket number: 
4A_54/2012
Original language: 
French
Parties
Appellant: 
X.__
Respondent: 
Y.__ Inc.
Counsel
Appellant: 
Geisinger Elliott
Cremades Anne-Carole
Respondent: 
Brown-Berset Dominique
Ritter Dominique
PDF version of the translation: 
PDF icon 27 juin 2012 4A 54 2012.pdf
Chairman: 
Patocchi Paolo Michele
Arbitrator (s): 
Moed Peniel
Peacock Robert T.