In Re: Kelly And Henderson P. Ltd., L. Jai ... vs Kelly And Henderson Pvt. Ltd. on 19 March, 1979
41. The principle of Henderson v Henderson applies typically when a
litigant in court proceedings complains about matters that could and
should have been raised in earlier litigation. During and after the
hearing before me there emerged an issue between the parties about
whether MTSF‟s money laundering complaint could have been
determined in the First Option Agreement Arbitration. Mr Flynn
submitted that it was only by agreement between the parties that the
Tribunal took it upon itself to determine the SPA issue and it did not
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encompass the money laundering complaint: that complaint could not
have been determined in the First Option Agreement Arbitration unless
both parties and the Tribunal had so agreed. Nomihold argued that
MTSF knew before the SPA Arbitration was brought the evidential
basis for its money laundering complaint and could have raised it, had
it wished to do so, in the SPA Arbitration from the start; that the First
Option Arbitration included all disputes between the parties about
whether the SPA was invalid and not performed; and that, had MTSF
raised the money laundering complaint, the Tribunal would certainly
have decided it. I do not need to decide this difference, I do not have all
relevant material about any agreement between the parties that led to
the Tribunal assuming the burden of deciding the SPA Issue, and in
view of my decisions on the applications, I do not comment upon the
merits of it: it might fall to be determined in the New Arbitrations and I
should not trample upon such questions.