Arbitration — Arbitration award — Award failing to determine all issues — Whether a final award — Whether arbitrator’s mandate terminated — Whether award may be set aside — Commercial Arbitration Act 2011 (Vic) ss 32, 34(2)(a)(iii)

Arbitration — Arbitration agreement — Application to stay court proceedings — Whether agreement inoperative or incapable of being performed — Commercial Arbitration Act 2011 (Vic) s 8(1)

Arbitration — Arbitration agreement — Agreement in writing — Whether arbitration agreement specified ‘in writing’ which disputes to be arbitrated — Where arbitration agreement provided clear mechanism for precise identification of disputes — Commercial Arbitration Act 2011 (Vic), ss 1(3)(b), 4, 7, 35, 36

Arbitration — Award — Reasons — Whether arbitrators failed to give reasons for arbitral award — Commercial Arbitration Act 2011 (Vic), s 31

Arbitration — Arbitration agreement — Construction — Parties to contract commencing separate arbitrations before different tribunals — Hybrid arbitration clause providing for arbitration to be ‘conducted by the Resolution Institute in accordance with the ICC Rules of Arbitration’ — Workability of hybrid arbitration clauses — Jurisdiction of arbitral tribunal — Whether arbitrator entitled to apply Kompetenz-Kompetenz principle to determine authority to arbitrate — Which of two arbitration proceedings should continue