Arbitration
Global Aerospares Ltd v Airest AS [2023] EWHC 1430 (Comm), [2023] All ER (D) 25 (Jul)
The Business and Property Courts, dismissing the claim for directions that the court name an arbitrator pursuant to s 18 of the Arbitration Act 1996, which provided for the court to give directions where there was a failure of the procedure for the appointment of the arbitral tribunal, held that the claimant had not validly served a request to arbitrate so that the process for the appointment of an arbitrator had not validly begun and, accordingly, the claim was dismissed.
Contempt
Norman and another v Adler and another [2023] EWCA Civ 785, [2023] All ER (D) 33 (Jul)
The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed the appellants’ appeal from a decision which had refused their application for permission to apply for an order of committal under CPR 81 against the respondent police officers. The appellants alleged that: (i) the judge had failed to have any or any adequate regard to the decision in Berry
