Costain Ltd & Others v Bechtel Ltd & Anr

A party may apply to the English court to remove an arbitrator on the grounds that circumstances exist that give rise to justifiable doubts as to his impartiality.

Failure by a party to pay its share of an advance on arbitration costs may amount to a breach of the arbitration agreement, but it will not necessarily be repudiatory. Where the applicable arbitral rules provide mechanisms to allow the arbitration to proceed, non‑payment alone is unlikely to render the arbitration agreement inoperative.