{"id":2152,"date":"2026-07-26T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albiddalawfirm.com\/news\/%d8%b9%d8%af%d9%85-%d8%a7%d8%ae%d8%aa%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%b5-%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%ab%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a8\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:53:38","slug":"lack-of-jurisdiction-of-the-investment-and-trade-court-to-hear-an-action-to-set-aside-an-arbitral-award","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/albiddalawfirm.com\/en\/news\/lack-of-jurisdiction-of-the-investment-and-trade-court-to-hear-an-action-to-set-aside-an-arbitral-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Jurisdiction of the Investment and Trade Court to Hear an Action to Set Aside an Arbitral Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Investment and Trade Court ruled that it lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to hear an action seeking to set aside an arbitral award issued in favor of a client of Al-Bidda Law Firm in a dispute relating to construction works, and ordered the claimant to pay the costs.<\/p>\n<p>The action sought to annul the arbitral award by raising a series of grounds relating to the arbitration proceedings and their outcome. The firm undertook the defense of its client, pleading at the outset that the court before which the dispute was brought was not the court with subject-matter jurisdiction to hear actions to set aside arbitral awards under the framework established by the Arbitration Law.<\/p>\n<p>The defense also addressed, in the alternative, the grounds for annulment that had been raised, and demonstrated that they did not apply to the award in question. The court, however, confined itself to the question that precedes any examination of the merits, namely determining the judicial body with jurisdiction to hear the application for setting aside, and concluded that it lacked jurisdiction without ruling on the validity of the substantive grounds relied upon by the claimant.<\/p>\n<p>The case highlights the practical importance of jurisdictional rules in arbitration disputes, as an action to set aside an award is a special judicial avenue governed by specific procedures and a designated forum. It also confirms the need to verify the competent court before commencing proceedings, since an error in identifying it results in the procedural termination of the action and the imposition of costs on the party who brought it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Investment and Trade Court ruled that it lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to hear an action seeking to set aside an arbitral award issued in favor of a client of Al-Bidda Law Firm in a dispute relating to construction works, and ordered the claimant to pay the costs. The action sought to annul the arbitral award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":7,"template":"","news-category":[32],"class_list":["post-2152","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albiddalawfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albiddalawfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albiddalawfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albiddalawfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albiddalawfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}