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ARTICLE · 02 MARCH 2022

Ovsyankin v Angophora ( [2021] EWHC 3376 (Comm))

Under the Shareholders Agreement, the parties undertook to cooperate in good faith with one another with the aim of selling their respective shareholdings several years later.

United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & Arbitration

England & Wales

Ovsyankin v Angophora: Arbitrators' discretion to explore, invite evidence on, and decide on the basis of, issues that are merely 'in play' confirmed; high threshold for successful challenge to arbitral Awards re-affirmed; RAV Bahamas v Therapy Beach Club cited with approval.

  1. INTRODUCTION

In April 2021, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in RAV Bahamas v Therapy Beach Club1 addressed an application to set aside an award in the Bahamas on grounds of "serious irregularity".2 In that case, the Privy Council found that there had been a serious irregularity based on a number of grounds3 and, in doing so, set out guidelines on the manner in which arbitral tribunals should address arguments and evidence presented to them by parties.

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