SUMUKAN LTD v THE COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT

[2007] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 87

COURT OF APPEAL

Before Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Lord Justice Waller and Lord Justice Sedley

Arbitration - Error of law - Arbitration clause incorporating document containing clause excluding right of appeal against award for error of law - Judge deciding that exclusion agreement valid - Judge refusing permission to appeal - Whether Court of Appeal could give permission to appeal - Whether exclusion agreement valid - European Convention on Human Rights, article 6 - Arbitration Act 1996, section 69.