Court room 4

The counsel for Respondents proceeded with the arguments after a brief introduction. She began by citing a foreign case law for ousting the jurisdiction of the tribunal and submitted that national courts have the power to decide the case. The judges grilled the counsel in regards to the case and after some short answers, the judges did not seem convinced about the veracity of the ratio relied on.

The counsel proceeding with her next argument but was was stopped by all the judges together as they thought that she was making contradictory statements with respect to severability of contract and the counsel could not make herself clear which made the energy in the room very tense.