The court considered an arbitration agreement which purported to be governed by the Arbitration Acts but according to the laws of the Beth Din.
Held: This amounted to an indication that the agreement itself was to be construed according to English law, applying the laws and practices of the Jewish Beth Din. The parties therefore had recourse to the courts on matters as to the agreement and arbitration.
[1994] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 138
England and Wales
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Cited – Halpern and Another v Halpern and others ComC 24-Mar-2006
The deceased parents, being orthodox Jews, had first made standard wills and then made provision accoding to Jewish law. A dispute after the second death was referred to a Beth Din arbitration. After an initial resolution, various distributions were . .
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Arbitration
Updated: 18 January 2022; Ref: scu.239596