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# Arbitration Regional Overview: Asia Pacific | International Arbitration Newsletter June 2018
06 / 18 / 2018
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**The most relevant Asia Pacific updates from the global International Arbitration and ADR practice group at Garrigues.**
### **AUSTRALIA**
**Australian court issues freezing order under SIAC arbitration proceedings**
An Australian court has recently granting a US$20 million freezing order against a Spanish-owned engineering company Duró Felguera Australia to prevent it from disposing of the potential proceeds of a US$234 million claim it is pursuing against Samsung at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). The underlying arbitration dispute refers to a subcontract for the transport of processing facility components for a major mining, rail and port project in Western Australia.
### **BANGLADESH**
**Bangladesh faces new ICSID claim**
The Bangladesh Power Development Board has recently been hit by a claim brought by NEPC Consortium Power allegedly related to a power plant that the company operates in the country. NEPC began supplying electricity to Bangladesh’s national grid in 1999 pursuant to a 15-year contract. In 2015 the Power Development Board extended the contract for two further years but its status is now unclear.
### **CHINA**
**CIETAC award upheld in London**
The English Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed British company, RBRG Trading (UK) Ltd's, application for appeal and held that the RBRG's refusal to implement a CIETAC arbitration award in favour of Chinese company, Sinocore International Co. Ltd on the basis of public policy was invalid. The dispute relates to a contract for the sale of rolled steel coils.
### **INDIA**
**Vodaphone claims to proceed**
The Delhi High Court has issued a decision vacating an earlier ex parte interim order prohibiting Vodafone’s parent company in London from continuing an UNCITRAL arbitration under the India-UK bilateral investment treaty over a retroactive tax bill. It also rejected India’s request for a permanent injunction. Among its reasons, the court dismissed arguments that the arbitration constituted an abuse of process on the basis that Vodafone’s Dutch subsidiary had already brought a similar UNCITRAL claim in 2014 under the India-Netherlands BIT. According to the court, a parent company invoking another treaty or “multiple claims by companies in a vertical structure under different treaties against same state measures” do not automatically constitute an abuse of process. Now that the tribunal hearing the claim under the India-UK BIT has been constituted, in accordance with the doctrine of kompetenz-kompetenz, the tribunal must therefore decide any arguments that the claim under the India-UK BIT constitutes an abuse of process, the court said.
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