METAL DISTRIBUTORS (UK) LTD v ZCCM INVESTMENT HOLDINGS PLC

[2005] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 37

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr Justice Cresswell

Arbitration - Jurisdiction of arbitrators - Set-off - Claim within scope of arbitration clause - Counterclaim outside scope of arbitration clause - Whether arbitrators empowered to hear counterclaim by way of set-off - Transactional and independent set-off - Arbitration Act 1996, schedule 67 - Arbitration Act 1996, schedules 30 and 67.