It is uncontroversial to say that the seat court has supervisory jurisdiction over an arbitration. But can another, non-seat court, have a residual jurisdiction to grant relief in respect of matters not within the purview of the seat court? That was the issue that the Singapore High Court had to address in the latest instalment of the saga between MSA Global LLC (Oman) (“MSA”) and Engineering Projects (India) Ltd (“EPIL”) arising from EPIL’s unhappiness from the failure of one of the arbitrators in the tribunal failing to disclose his previous relationship with the chairman of MSA.
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