FIVE OCEANS SALVAGE LTD v WENZHOU TIMBER GROUP CO (THE "MEDEA K")

[2012] Lloyd's Rep Plus 6

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr Justice Field

Arbitration - Jurisdiction - Serious irregularity - Salvage arbitrator making salvage award against cargo owners - Cargo owners contending they had not authorised representatives to act for them in the arbitration - Whether arbitrator retained jurisdiction to remedy breach of natural justice - Whether innocent failure by arbitrator to give cargo owners opportunity of putting their case constituted serious irregularity - Arbitration Act 1996, sections 32 and 68.