Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the arbitral award violated procedural public policy by disregarding res judicata of the 11 April 2012 High Commercial Court judgment.
Decisione estratta
No. The prior judgment did not bar arbitration because the parties were not identical in a meaningful sense and, in any event, the object of the dispute was not identical as the arbitral tribunal relied on post-judgment ratification facts.
Motivazione estratta
Procedural public policy is breached only if an arbitral tribunal ignores a prior binding decision. Here, the High Commercial Court decided only the formal validity of the addendum on the basis of lack of authority, while the arbitral tribunal examined later conduct amounting to ratification, a true novum outside the earlier judgment's temporal scope.