Arbitration - S3D Interactive Inc. v Oovee Ltd.
London Court of International Arbitration Author Mar9254 Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Commmons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords justices Lewison, Popplewell and Birss) S3D Interactive Inc v Oovee Ltd [2022] WLR(D) 516, [2022] EWCA Civ 1665 This was an appeal against the decision of Mr Justice Butcher to enforce a peremptory order of an arbitrator under s.42 of the Arbitration Act 1996 notwithstanding the appellant's contention that the arbitration agreement had been repudiated. The parties managed to resolve their differences after the appeal was heard but before judgment was delivered. Because of public interest in the issue, their lordships stated how they would have decided the appeal had it not been settled. Arbitration In "What is Arbitration" the World Intellectual Property Organization defined arbitration as "a procedure in which a dispute is submitted, by agreement of the parties, to one or more arbitrators who mak...