By Shriya Maini*

Divergent decisions of the French[1] and English[2] courts on the Dallah case reiterate that the enforcement of arbitral awards under the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Award, 1958 (“NYC”) is not as straightforward in practice as it is in principle. In this essay, I elucidate the law laid down by the two incompatible judgments rendered by two different national courts in the Dallah case and conclude that the French Court’s approach was most satisfactory.Read More »