CL-2024-000080 - [2025] EWHC 1350 (Comm)
Commercial Court

CL-2024-000080 - [2025] EWHC 1350 (Comm)

Fecha: 03-Jun-2025

Heading

Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 1350 (Comm)
Case No: CL-2024-000080
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
KING'S BENCH DIVISION
COMMERCIAL COURT

IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION CLAIM

Royal Courts of Justice

Rolls Building, Fetter Lane,

London, EC4A 1NL

Date: 03/06/2025

Before :

THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE HENSHAW

Between:

CAFI – COMMODITY & FREIGHT INTEGRATORS DMCC

Claimant

- and -

GTCS TRADING DMCC

Defendant

Benjamin Coffer (instructed by Holman Fenwick Willan LLP) for the Claimant

Angharad Parry KC (instructed by Davies Battersby Solicitors) for the Defendant

Hearing date: 12 March 2025

Draft judgment circulated to parties: 12 May 2025

Approved Judgment

.............................

Mr Justice Henshaw:

(A) INTRODUCTION 2

(B) THE TRANSACTIONS 3

(C) FIRST TIER AWARD 5

(D) APPEAL PROCEEDINGS AND AWARD 6

(E) GROUNDS OF CHALLENGE 9

(F) ANALYSIS 10

(1) Challenge 1 10

(2) Challenge 2 14

(3) Challenge 3 17

(G) CONCLUSIONS 19