Last year’s landmark Jivraj v Hashwani ruling on the employment status of arbitrators could be set for a challenge in the European courts, after Hashwani’s lawyers took the case to the European Commission.
City litigation firm Zaiwalla & Co has sent a complaint to the European Commission asking it to examine whether last year’s closely-watched UK Supreme court judgment – which ruled that nationality and religion can be used as criteria in the selection and appointment of arbitrators – infringed EU law.
