BRAZIL 13

02 - 08 - 2010

BRAZIL 13

Yearbook Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, A.J. van den Berg (ed.), Vol. XXXVI (2011)
Jurisdiction Brazil
Summary

Brazil 13. Superior Tribunal de Justiça, 2 August 2010

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The court discusses the general conditions the Convention imposes on a petitioner for seeking recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award – namely, the submission of the original arbitration agreement or arbitral award or a certified copy thereof – and examines in general whether these conditions were complied in the case at issue.

Conditions to be fulfilled by petitioner in general
504 Paragraph 1 - Ground a: Invalidity of the arbitration agreement - Agreement referred to in Art. II
519

Public policy: The court discusses cases in which the subject matter of the award was not arbitrable in the enforcement State on public policy grounds.

Ground a: Arbitrability
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