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Our clerks’ room is open between:

8.30am – 6.30pm

Outside of these hours and in cases of urgency, please contact
Paul Bunting on 07971 843023 or
Darren Madle on 07769 714399.

Clerk contacts

Richard Sheehan

Deputy Senior Clerk

020 7420 9503
Oliver Ventura

First Junior Clerk

020 7420 9505
Aron Hanks

Second Junior Clerk

020 7420 9506
Archie Conners

Third Junior Clerk

020 7420 9507

Our clerks’ room is open between:

8.30am – 6.30pm

Outside of these hours and in cases of urgency, please contact
Paul Bunting on 07971 843023 or
Darren Madle on 07769 714399.

Clerk contacts

Richard Sheehan

Deputy Senior Clerk

020 7420 9503
Oliver Ventura

First Junior Clerk

020 7420 9505
Aron Hanks

Second Junior Clerk

020 7420 9506
Archie Conners

Third Junior Clerk

020 7420 9507

NWA v NVF [2021] EWHC 2666 (Comm): breach of an ADR condition precedent to arbitration does not affect an arbitral tribunal’s jurisdiction

In an important decision handed down on 8 October 2021, NWA v NVF [2021] EWHC 2666 (Comm), the Commercial Court (Calver J) has confirmed that the failure of a party to comply with a contractual term requiring mediation before a dispute is referred to arbitration is not a matter which affects the jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal and, instead, is only relevant to the admissibility of the dispute.

Alexander Goold and Lara Kuehl appeared for the First and Second Claimants respectively.

The full article can be found here.