Hancock v Hancock Prospecting Pty Limited

• 1. Commercial Arbitration
  2. › Composition of arbitral tribunal
  3. › Grounds for challenge to arbitrator
  4. › Justifiable doubts as to impartiality or independence
  5. › Whether real danger of bias
  6. › Whether arbitrator's wife's prior professional involvement with party gave rise to justifiable doubts
  7. › Commercial Arbitration Act 2012 (WA), ss 12, 13
• 1. Commercial Arbitration
  2. › Challenge procedure
  3. › Finality of court's decision on challenge
  4. › Whether s 13(5) precludes appeal to Court of Appeal
  5. › Whether cross-vesting legislation creates right of appeal not available in originating jurisdiction
  6. › Commercial Arbitration Act 2012 (WA), s 13(5)
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 101
• 1. Commercial Arbitration
  2. › Challenge procedure
  3. › Finality of court's decision
  4. › Meaning of 'within the limits of the authority of the Court'
  5. › Whether phrase preserves appellate review for jurisdictional error from superior courts
  6. › Whether constructive failure to exercise jurisdiction falls within exception
  7. › Commercial Arbitration Act 2012 (WA), s 13(5)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Leave to appeal
  3. › Discretionary factors
  4. › Where uniform legislative scheme provides decision is final
  5. › Whether scheme of Commercial Arbitration Acts is powerful discretionary factor against grant of leave

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