17 Jan 1997
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. SHIMIZU CORPORATION
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. SHIMIZU CORPORATION
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV185/1996
The Court held that the arbitrator departed from the parties' agreed 'guillotine' procedure by reserving decisions on global claims, which amounted to misconduct permitting intervention; global claims presented under Crosby must be dismissed if not properly substantiated and cannot be re‑opened for further particulars where finality was agreed; accordingly the judge's remissions of certain items in favour of the contractor were quashed and the rubbish removal global claim was remitted to the arbitrator to be reconsidered only on the existing material (no further particulars), while the refusa…