Enforcement of awards: adjournment pending curial challenge

In National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine v Public Joint Stock Company Gazprom [2019] EWHC 658 (Comm) Sir Michael Burton discussed the principles underlying the operation of section 103(5) of the Arbitration Act, namely the power of the court to delay enforcement of an award pending a challenge to the award in the curial courts. The questions were: should enforcement be delayed; and, if so, should the award debtor be ordered to provide security?

Naftogaz : the facts