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Taggle Systems Pty Ltd v Elster Metering Pty Ltd

The Court granted only a partial stay in favour of Singapore arbitration, limited to post-8 February 2021 supply contracts, and delayed the arbitration until final judgment.

  • Stay of proceedings
  • Arbitration agreement
  • Kompetenz-kompetenz
  • Incorporation by reference
  • Through or under
  • Partial stay
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Arbitration

Qube Re Services (No 2) Pty Limited in its capacity as trustee of the Moorebank Industrial Terminals Assets Trust v Martinus Rail Pty Ltd

Partial arbitral awards were enforced as judgments. The Court held SOPA policy was not the kind of public policy that barred enforcement under s 36.

  • Enforcement of partial arbitral awards
  • Public policy objection to enforcement
  • Security of payment act policy
  • Interest on judgment debt
  • Costs of proceedings
  • Arbitration-enforcement
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Arbitration

Roadpost Inc v Beam Communications Pty Ltd

Roadpost Inc v Beam Communications Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 120

The Federal Court enforced a foreign arbitral award and ordered specific performance requiring Beam Communications to sell its Zoleo shares under the joint venture agreement.

  • Enforcement of foreign arbitral award
  • Specific performance
  • Joint venture agreement
  • Arbitral-award-enforcement
  • Specific-performance
  • Joint-venture-agreements
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Arbitration

Republic of India v CCDM Holdings, LLC

Republic of India v CCDM Holdings, LLC [2025] FCAFC 2

The Full Court held India did not waive foreign state immunity by ratifying the New York Convention subject to its commercial reservation, so the enforcement application was set aside.

  • Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards
  • Foreign state immunity
  • Treaty reservations
  • Commercial transaction exception
  • Foreign-state-immunity
  • New-york-convention
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Contempt of court

Guoao Holding Group Co Ltd v Xue (Sentencing)

Guoao Holding Group Co Ltd v Xue (Sentencing) [2024] FCA 1503

Sentencing for contempt arising from breaches of freezing orders resulted in a three-month imprisonment term wholly suspended, with indemnity costs ordered.

  • Freezing orders
  • Penalty hearing
  • Suspended sentence
  • Contempt-of-court
  • Freezing-orders
  • Sentencing
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Arbitration

ViaSat Inc v Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd

ViaSat Inc v Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd [2024] NSWSC 1581

Leave to appeal from an arbitral award was refused. The Court held the contract dispute was bespoke, not of general public importance, and the award was not open to serious doubt.

  • Leave to appeal from arbitral award
  • Prevention principle
  • Liquidated damages
  • Implied contractual obligations
  • Final acceptance regime under bespoke building contract
  • Arbitration
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Arbitration

CBI Constructors Pty Ltd v Chevron Australia Pty Ltd

CBI Constructors Pty Ltd v Chevron Australia Pty Ltd [2024] HCA 28

The High Court considered whether an arbitral tribunal was functus officio after a first interim award and whether a court could set aside a later award under s 34(2)(a)(iii).

  • Setting aside arbitral award
  • Functus officio
  • Standards of review
  • Estoppel
  • Jurisdiction
  • Uncitral model law
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Arbitration

CBI Constructors Pty Ltd v Chevron Australia Pty LtdCitation:[2024] HCA 28Before:Gageler CJ, Gordon, Edelman, Steward, Gleeson, Jagot, Beech-Jones JJDate:14 Aug 2024Case Number:P22/2023Read more

The High Court upheld the setting aside of an interim arbitral award, holding the tribunal was functus officio after the first award and that review under s 34(2)(a)(iii) is de novo.

  • Setting aside arbitral award
  • Functus officio
  • Res judicata
  • Issue estoppel
  • Anshun estoppel
  • Jurisdiction of arbitral tribunal
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Arbitration

Tesseract International Pty Ltd v Pascale Construction Pty LtdCitation:[2024] HCA 24Before:Gageler CJ, Gordon, Edelman, Steward, Gleeson, Jagot, Beech-Jones JJDate:07 Aug 2024Case Number:A9/2023Read more

The High Court held that South Australian and federal proportionate liability provisions do not apply in arbitration unless the statutory text or context clearly extends them to arbitral proceedings.

  • Proportionate liability
  • Concurrent wrongdoing
  • Applicability of statutory liability regimes in arbitration
  • Choice of law
  • Arbitrability
  • Arbitration
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Arbitration

Tesseract International Pty Ltd v Pascale Construction Pty Ltd

Tesseract International Pty Ltd v Pascale Construction Pty Ltd [2024] HCA 24

The High Court held that South Australian proportionate liability laws apply in a domestic commercial arbitration, and allowed the appeal.

  • Proportionate liability
  • Contributory negligence
  • Commercial arbitration
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Arbitration
  • Commercial-arbitration
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