DCC 198/2020

This case involved a cancellation of an arbitral award on the basis that the arbitration agreement stated that the location of the arbitration should be Saudi Arabia and it should be governed by the DIAC rules but it was not held in Saudi Arabia.

Background

Some Respondents  filed grievance No. 24 of 2019 against the Appellant Construction Company against the grieved against a decision that had rejected the implementation of an arbitration award before the Court of Appeal. The Plaintiff requested the acceptance of the grievance in form and in the matter to reverse the grieved against decision and ratify the arbitral award and execute it on the basis that on 22/4/2018 they had obtained an interlocutory arbitral award considering that the arbitral tribunal was competent to consider the dispute between the parties.