The court was asked whether there was a dispute sufficient to allow a stay of court proceedings to allow an arbitration to proceed.
Held: If letters were written making some request or demand and the defendant did not reply, there was a dispute. It was not necessary, for a dispute to arise, that the defendants should write back and say ‘I don’t agree’.
Judges:
Templeman LJ
Citations:
[1982] 1WLR 1375
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Amec Civil Engineering Ltd v Secretary of State for Transport CA 17-Mar-2005
The contractors appealed a decision that an arbitrator had jurisdiction to hear a claim against them in respect of works carried out on the Thelwall viaduct. The contractors denied that there had been a dispute which could found a reference, and no . .
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Arbitration
Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.224300
