This paper enquires into the standards employed by Pakistani courts to review arbitral award. Although, domestic and foreign awards are administrated by two discrete legal regimes, the question is how the nationality of award is determined. This differentiation in the nationality of arbitral award, in turn, calls forth the application of distinct rules for domestic and foreign awards in case the award debtor wants to impeach the validity or enforceability of award when award creditor has not yet committed the award for enforcement. Similarly, different limitation periods bear on domestic and foreign award to delve if their enforcement is time bared. But this divergence in treatment based on the foreign and domestic nature of award does not lead to a differentiation in judicial review of award since Pakistani courts review both kinds of awards with same intensity.
Asian International Arbitration Journal