BRAZIL 6

16 - 05 - 2007

BRAZIL 6

Yearbook Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, A.J. van den Berg (ed.), Vol. XXXIII (2008)
Jurisdiction Brazil
Summary

Brazil 6. Superior Tribunal de Justiça, 16 May 2007

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501

The court discusses questions relating to the general approach taken by the Convention to the grounds for refusal of recognition and enforcement, including its pro-enforcement bias, as well as the system of the Convention, under which recognition and enforcement may only be denied on seven listed grounds and the petitioner has only the obligations set out in Art. IV.

Grounds are exhaustive
502

The court discusses the principle that the merits of the award may not be reviewed and that the court may only carry out a limited review of the award to ascertain grounds for refusal.

No re-examination of the merits of the arbitral award
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