Summary

This judgment concerns an application to set aside the second partial final award ("Award") issued in an arbitration between [DSS] ("Claimant") and [DST] ("Defendant") for alleged breaches of natural justice under s 24(b) of the International Arbitration Act 1994 (2020 Rev Ed) ("IAA").

The background to the parties' dispute was a series of time charterparties in respect of a particular vessel ("Vessel"), which gave rise to two separate but related arbitrations. The first arbitration ("Head Reference") was between the owner of the Vessel ("Owner") and the Defendant, the head charterer of the Vessel. The second arbitration ("Sub-Reference") was, in turn, between the Defendant and the Claimant, the subcharterer of the Vessel. While separate tribunals were constituted, the arbitrations were heard concurrently, with both tribunals sitting together. Separate awards were issued by each tribunal.

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Arbitration -- Award -- Recourse against award -- Setting aside -- Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel ("FPSO")