Serious irregularity and jurisdiction: scope of right of challenge and acts of state

The lengthy decision of Popplewell J in Reliance Industries Ltd and Another v The Union of India [2018] EWHC 822 (Comm) considers a range of challenges to an arbitration award, and there is much useful discussion on the scope of the individual heads of serious irregularity under section 68. Perhaps of greatest interest is, however, the court’s analysis of jurisdiction as it applies to the principle of non-justiciability of acts of state.

Reliance : the facts