There is a "middle ground" that must be sought between "pure efficiency and abstract justice" that provides the proper scope of judicial review of arbitration awards, says Olivier Antoine. That middle ground is a narrow review of awards that works in tandem with court-created general principles "potentially applicable to all grounds of review."
Antoine provides a comprehensive examination of the statutory and nonstatutory or contractual grounds of judicial review against a backdrop of important evolving case law.
Arbitration is the process by which private parties choose to submit a dispute to a neutral third party: the arbitrator. The arbitrator will decide the dispute …