法官认为:本案适用的检验标准是,仲裁员的程序性决定是否 "违反了我们最基本的道德和正义观念",从而导致程序上的不公正 "不能被宽恕"(whether the arbitrator’s procedural decisions “offend our most basic notions of morality and justice” such that the consequent procedural unfairness“cannot be condoned” )。
法院认为:当事方主张公共政策抗辩 "确实是一种特殊的抗辩",适用的门槛非常高,只有当仲裁裁决 "涉及在法院地属于非法的行为,或者该行为涉及有悖于法院地社会或商业生活有序运作的行为"(“only if the arbitral award “involves an act that is illegal in the forum or if the action involves acts repugnant to the orderly functioning of the social or commercial life of the forum”)。
因此,在法官看来,被申请人不仅试图以不正当的方式重新提起仲裁,而且试图就仲裁中从未提出过的问题重新提起仲裁;试图就仲裁庭在一个并未向其提出的问题上没有做的事情对其进行评判。借用 Osborne 法官在 Prospector PTE Ltd. v CGX Energy Inc., 2023 ONSC 4207一案判决中指出的:当事人同意根据约定的中国国际经济贸易仲裁委员会规则并依照中国法律对其争议进行仲裁,他们正是这样做的,仲裁中发生的事情丝毫没有从根本上违反我们的公正和公平原则。(the parties agreed to arbitrate their dispute pursuant to agreed-upon CIETAC Arbitration Rules and subject to the laws of China, they did exactly that and there is simply nothing in what occurred in the arbitration that offends our principles of justice and fairness in a fundamental way.)