In September 2009, the Dika (Supreme) Court, for the first time, ruled that the Thai court is empowered to revoke foreign arbitral awards. This case involved an arbitral award issued by an English tribunal appointed under the GAFTA rules. The lower court (the Central Intellectual Property & International Trade Court) found that there was no principal contract and hence there was no agreement to arbitrate (the alleged arbitration agreement was a clause in the draft principal contract which was not signed by the parties). We represented the party seeking the revocation.
