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August 16, 2025September 16, 2025

Annulment | Arbitral Award | Fundamental Principles of Arbitration – Case # 134

Portuguese Supreme Court of Justice

Annulment | Arbitral Award | Fundamental Principles of Arbitration

Case No. 1599/22.6YRLSB.S1

Date: 01 July 2025

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Keywords: Annulment | Arbitral Award | Fundamental Principles of Arbitration

Summary:

I. An arbitral … Read more

September 15, 2021September 16, 2025

Guimarães Court of Appeal | Criminal Proceedings | Arbitrability | Case #132

Guimarães Court of Appeal | Criminal Proceedings | Arbitrability | Case #132

Case nr. 38/21.4YRGMR

13-07-2021

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Summary:

While criminal proceedings are pending against the claimant for facts attributed to him, the arbitral tribunal does not have jurisdiction “rationae … Read more

July 26, 2021September 16, 2025

Coimbra Court of Appeal | Arbitration | Application of the rules of the Portuguese Code of Civil Procedure | Case #131

Case nr. 56/21.2YRCBR.C1

08-07-2021

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Summary:

The rules of the Code of Civil Procedure do not apply even by default to arbitration proceedings subject to the Voluntary Arbitration Law (Law No. 63/2011 of 14 December 2011), save if the … Read more

December 11, 2020September 16, 2025

Supreme Court of Justice |Penalty Clause | International Public Policy of the Portuguese State | Case #116

Supreme Court of Justice |Penalty Clause | International Public Policy of the Portuguese State | Case #116
Case nr. 2004/08.6TVLSB.L2.S1
10-11-2020
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Summary:

I. Having determined that the stipulation of the parties is a penalty clause of a reparatory … Read more

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Annulment of an Arbitral Award | Principle of Equality | Adversarial Principle | Assessment of Evidence | Merits of the case| State Court| Case #115

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Annulment of an Arbitral Award | Principle of Equality | Adversarial Principle | Assessment of Evidence | Merits of the case| State Court| Case #115
Case nr. 1609/20.1YRLSB-6
19-11-2020
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Headline:

Article 39(4) of … Read more

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Impecuniosity and State Legal Aid | Inoperativeness of the Arbitration Agreement | Case #113

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Impecuniosity and State Legal Aid | Inoperativeness of the Arbitration Agreement | Case #113
Case nr. 3504/19.8T8FNC.L1-6
18-06-2020
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Summary:

If the petitioner benefits from the State legal aid, for being established his lack … Read more

June 21, 2020June 21, 2020

Guimarães Court of Appeal | Annulment of the Arbitral Award| Factual Background of the Arbitral Award | Lack of motivation| International Public Policy of Portugal | Case #112

Guimarães Court of Appeal | Annulment of the Arbitral Award| Factual Background of the Arbitral Award | Lack of motivation| International Public Policy of Portugal | Case #112
Case nr. 117/19.8YRGMR
28-05-2020
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Headline:

When deciding a request to … Read more

June 4, 2020May 19, 2020

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Insurance Contract | Extension of the Arbitration Clause to the Beneficiary of the Insurance | Autonomy of the Arbitration Agreement| Case #111

Case nr. 6036/17.5T8LSB.L1-
05-05-2020
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Summary:

I- Insurance contracts are assumed to be contracts in favour of a third party, in which the policyholder acts on behalf of a determined or indeterminate insured person;

II- In such cases, the … Read more

June 3, 2020May 19, 2020

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Arbitration in Medicine Patents Disputes | Mandatory Arbitration | Competence of the Arbitral Tribunal to Hear Claim on the Invalidity of the Patent| Case #110

Case nr. 772/19.9YRLSB-6
07-05-2020
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Summary:

I- The mandatory arbitral tribunal provided for in Law No. 62/2011 shall have jurisdiction to examine, by way of a limited exception to a peremptory rule, the question of the invalidity of the … Read more

June 1, 2020May 13, 2020

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Lack of Financial Means | Inoperativeness of the Arbitration Agreement | Kompetenz – Kompetenz | Case #109

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Lack of Financial Means | Inoperativeness of the Arbitration Agreement | Kompetenz – Kompetenz | Case #109
Case nr. 415/18.8T8SNT.L1-2
05-03-2020
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Headline:

In a case where the formal validity of the arbitration agreement … Read more

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Case nr. 772/19.9YRLSB-607-05-2020LINK DGSI

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Lisbon Court of Appeal | Lack of Financial Means | Inoperativeness of the Arbitration Agreement | Kompetenz – Kompetenz | Case #109Case nr. 415/18.8T8SNT.L1-205-03-2020LINK DGSI

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Lisbon Court of Appeal | Annulment of an Arbitral Award | Principle of Equality | Adversarial Principle | Assessment of Evidence | Merits of the case| State Court| Case #115
Case nr. 1609/20.1YRLSB-6
19-11-2020
LINK DGSI

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Impecuniosity and State Legal Aid | Inoperativeness of the Arbitration Agreement | Case #113
Case nr. 3504/19.8T8FNC.L1-6
18-06-2020
LINK DGSI

Guimarães Court of Appeal | Annulment of the Arbitral Award| Factual Background of the Arbitral Award | Lack of motivation| International Public Policy of Portugal | Case #112
Case nr. 117/19.8YRGMR
28-05-2020
LINK DGSI

Case nr. 6036/17.5T8LSB.L1-
05-05-2020
LINK DGSI

Case nr. 772/19.9YRLSB-6
07-05-2020
LINK DGSI

Lisbon Court of Appeal | Lack of Financial Means | Inoperativeness of the Arbitration Agreement | Kompetenz – Kompetenz | Case #109
Case nr. 415/18.8T8SNT.L1-2
05-03-2020
LINK DGSI