Singapore SC quashes ex-CJI Dipak Misra's 'copy-pasted' arbitration award

The Singapore Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside an arbitral award passed by a tribunal presided over by former Chief JusticeChief JusticeChief Justice of India Dipak Misra after finding that nearly half of the contents of the award had been “copy-pasted” from earlier awards passed by the same presiding arbitrator, Live Law reported.

A bench of Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and Justice Steven Chong in the Court of Appeal said that new arguments in the matter were made because of “the slightly different factual matrix presented by the arbitration”.

“Despite this, the parallel awards were used as templates in drafting the award to a very substantial degree,” the bench was quoted as saying. “It is undisputed that at least 212 paragraphs from the parallel awards were retained in the 451-paragraph award. This has several implications.”