Recourse Against the Award - Chapter 19 - Arbitration Law of Russia: Practice and Procedure
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Originally from: Arbitration Law of Russia: Practice and Procedure
Under Russian law, arbitral awards cannot be appealed on the merits. The starting point for this analysis must be Art. 34 of the Arbitration Act, very aptly entitled “Application for setting aside as exclusive recourse against arbitral award” (emphasis added). The word “exclusive” here means “last resort” because the award cannot be appealed or challenged in any other way.
During Soviet times there was no procedure for setting aside an arbitral award—with just one exception: a MAC award could be appealed to the USSR Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority in the USSR).1 Nowadays, the jurisdiction for considering setting aside applications with respect to awards delivered by arbitrations seated in Russia lies with the arbitrazh courts of first instance local to the relevant arbitration institution (for MAC and ICAC this is the City of Moscow Arbitrazh Court).
The landscape has changed dramatically now that the ruling of the first instance arbitrazh court on an application to set an award aside can be appealed to the cassation court of the relevant district and then to the RF Supreme Arbitrazh Court. In the Soviet era an applicant had a oneshot right to appeal a MAC award directly to the highest judicial authority in the country.
RECOURSE AGAINST THE AWARD
19.1 Reasons for Setting Aside
19.2 Procedure and Deadlines for Challenging an Award
19.3 Effect of the Court Decision That Sets the Award Aside
19.4 Appeal against the Court’s Decision to Set Aside or Not Set Aside the Award
19.4.1 Cassation Appeal
19.4.2 Judicial Supervision