Cases - Checkpoint Ltd v Strathclyde Pension Fund

Record details

Name

Checkpoint Ltd v Strathclyde Pension Fund

Date

[2003]

Citation

1 EGLR, CA

Legislation

Arbitration Act 1996

Keywords

Commercial property rent review dispute – landlord and tenant – rent review – valuation – arbitration – local knowledge – arbitrator permitted to use local knowledge

Summary

This was a case on challenging the arbitrator's award. The Court of Appeal held that the arbitrator may rely on his or her own knowledge in the form of information of the kind one would reasonably expect the arbitrator to have acquired.