22 Mar 1996
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. SHIMIZU CORPORATION
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. SHIMIZU CORPORATION
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP2893/1995
The court refused leave to appeal where no strong prima facie legal error or need for clarification of Hong Kong commercial law was shown; it held that remission is discretionary and limited to cases of procedural unfairness or exceptional circumstances, and applied those principles to remit only specified matters where the arbitrator had (i) acknowledged an inadvertent omission or incomplete calculation that he could and should complete (site overhead deduction) and (ii) declined to quantify certain global claims despite material before him enabling a reasonable apportionment (certain formwo…