Swire Shipping Pte Ltd v Ace Exim Pte Ltd

Arbitration — Award — Recourse against award — Setting aside — Arbitral tribunal making finding on unpleaded issue in the course of disposing of pleaded issue — Whether arbitral tribunal’s finding made in breach of natural justice — Section 24(b) International Arbitration Act 1994 (2020 Rev Ed); Arbitration — Award — Recourse against award — Setting aside — Party alleging arbitral tribunal’s finding on evidence “manifestly incoherent” — When award may be set aside on basis that arbitral tribunal’s finding is “manifestly incoherent” — Section 24(b) International Arbitration Act 1994 (2020 Rev Ed); Arbitration — Award — Recourse against award — Setting aside — Arbitral tribunal making finding on unpleaded issue in the course of disposing of pleaded issue — Whether arbitral tribunal acted in excess of jurisdiction by making finding on unpleaded issue — Article 34(2)(a)(iii) UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration