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CLERICAL ERROR — DOCUMENTS WRONGLY IDENTIFIED IN NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT — LIMITED JURISDICTION — TIME BAR — Respondent Award

This dispute arose as a result of a clerical error made by the consignee’s lawyers. When appointing an arbitrator, they used incorrect references to the same bill of lading contracts on various correspondences / documents. This variation inadvertently made the correspondences / documents apply to a non-existing contract, and subsequently, the Respondent argued that the corresponding claims should be time barred.