Research on the Revocation of Foreign-Related Arbitration Awards in Shanghai City

In this article, the authors take Shanghai City as the representative region and retrieve 48 cases related to applications for the revocation of foreign-related arbitration awards through tools such as China Judgments Online. Based on the compilation, induction, and analysis of the aforementioned documents, the authors briefly outline the current basic situation of cases applying for the revocation of foreign-related arbitration awards: All relevant cases have the characteristics of concentrated expression of foreign-related factors, large amount of subject matter involved, and relatively unified focus of disputes in the case. At the same time, the authors focus on the key issues summarized and gives the authors’ views and suggestions: On the issue of optimizing and developing relief measures for foreign-related arbitration awards, the authors agree to further optimize and make special provisions for the application for revocation system, and cancel the “no subject to execution system”; on the disputed issue of the dual track review mechanism, the authors support the establishment of an integrated judicial review model to reduce judicial intervention in arbitration and retain the effectiveness of arbitral awards to the greatest extent.