After a three-day trial, involving five witnesses of fact, His Honour Judge Holmes (sitting in the Central London County Court) has ruled in favour of the Defendant in Ahmed v Miah [2025], rejecting the Claimant’s case that he was entitled to enforce a contract of compromise formed following an arbitration meeting.
As well as dealing with the facts of the case, the judgment includes a useful review of a number of areas of the law involving: (i) the circumstances in which an invalid arbitral award may become a binding contract of compromise; (ii) the basis upon which a term requiring a party to make payment within a reasonable time period may be implied into a contract of compromise; and (iii) when a case might be rejected because a party has sought to advance an alternative claim based on the words “further or other relief”.
William Spence acted for the successful Defendant, instructed by Khaled Moyeed of Gunnercooke LLP.
A link to the judgment can be found here.
