Arbitration Case in English High Court - Bias/Removal Of Arbitrator (ASM Shipping Ltd v TTMI Ltd)
Article from: TDM 2 (2006), in Case Comments & Awards
Introduction
A brief comment on the English High Court case ASM Shipping Ltd v TTMI Ltd ([2005] EWHC 2238 (Comm)) was circulated on OGEMID while I was unavailable to respond [November 2005]. It was suggested (by ASM's Solicitors) that the judgment was historic and important; recall the time-honoured legal maxim "no man shall be a judge in his own cause" - with respect to such a distinguished firm of Solicitors and its celebrated Principal, that maxim applies equally to comment by any law firm anywhere on a case in which it represented one of the parties. On my, hopefully objective, analysis, ...