Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the arbitral award was rendered after the arbitrator’s mandate had expired and was therefore invalid under Swiss arbitration law.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The arbitrator’s powers ended on 2013-09-02 at 17:00 pursuant to the parties’ tripartite agreement; the award notified on 2013-09-03 was rendered out of time and had to be annulled.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court interpreted the exchange of letters and emails as a concordant agreement by both parties and the arbitrator to end the mandate if no award was received by the deadline. A late award exceeds the temporal scope of jurisdiction and is an annulable procedural defect, addressed under art. 190(2)(b) LDIP.