On 23 June 2026 the Plenary of the Spanish Constitutional Court (the “TC”) handed down a judgment that everyone practising arbitration in Spain should read carefully. The application for constitutional protection (recurso de amparo) was brought by a Luxembourg company, Tempus Holdings 76, S.A.R.L. (“Tempus”), against a judgment of the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Madrid (the “TSJM”) that had partially set aside an award. The TC granted the amparo

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