REUTERS | Beawiharta
July 21, 2021
Next generation of investment treaties
REUTERS | Jorge Silva
Scottish energy company Cairn Energy plc (Cairn) has sought to enforce a $1.3 billion investment treaty award against the assets of India’s national airline, Air India.
REUTERS | Hannah McKay
This three-part blog provides a diversity checklist to help retain and promote young and diverse talent in international arbitration. Part one provides an introduction to the state of diversity in international arbitration, and how checklists can help achieve excellence. Part two discusses the rationale for a ten- point diversity checklist in arbitration. This part three sets out the checklist itself, as well as two associated questionnaires for use at the start and end of arbitration proceedings to allow the tribunal to learn about diverse and young counsel members’ experience of the proceedings from a diversity and inclusion perspective. Continue reading
REUTERS | Sigtryggur Johannsson
This three-part blog provides a diversity checklist to help retain and promote young and diverse talent in international arbitration. Part one contains an introduction to the state of diversity in international arbitration, and how checklists can help achieve excellence. This part two discusses the rationale for a ten-point diversity checklist in arbitration. Part three sets out the checklist itself, as well as two associated questionnaires for use at the start and end of arbitration proceedings to allow the tribunal and institution to learn about participants’ experience of the proceedings from a diversity and inclusion perspective.
REUTERS | Mike Blake
This three-part blog provides a diversity checklist to help retain and promote young and diverse talent in international arbitration. This first part contains an introduction to the state of diversity in international arbitration, and how checklists can help achieve excellence. Part two discusses the rationale for a ten-point diversity checklist in arbitration. Part three sets out the checklist itself, as well as two associated questionnaires for use at the start and end of arbitration proceedings to allow the tribunal and institution to learn about participants’ experience of the proceedings from a diversity and inclusion perspective.
REUTERS | Hannah McKay
June 23, 2021
Power of London: LCIA stats reveal bumper year
The recent publication of the 2020 Annual Casework Report by the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) sets the scene for what was a remarkably successful year for the court. Last year, the LCIA received a robust and all-time high of 444 referrals, including 407 arbitrations pursuant to the LCIA Rules (an 18% increase from 2019). Revealingly, the long-term growth data shows a doubling of caseloads over the last ten years. Continue reading
REUTERS | Tom Nicholson
June 17, 2021
Composite requests: one step forward or two steps back?
Procedural flexibility is one of the pillars of international arbitration. In the past year and a half, we have seen how procedural flexibility enables international arbitration to meet and rise above the challenges of a global pandemic. Arbitration practitioners around the world seamlessly and efficiently extended the existing use of video conferencing from case management conferences and procedural hearings to substantive hearings and arbitrator deliberations.
REUTERS | Yves Herman
June 14, 2021
Unconscious Bias in International Arbitration
Arbitrators are inevitably bound by a duty of impartiality, whether that arises from of article 12 of the UNCITRAL Model Law, article 11 of the ICC Rules 2021, rule 11 of the CIArb Code of Professional and Ethical Conduct, the IBA Guidelines of Conflicts of Interest 2014 or any other applicable rule. What is sure is that some incarnation of this duty will apply.
REUTERS | Jorge Silva
In a recent ruling of earlier this year (No. RG 18/05756 – D v. K, Paris Court of Appeal), the Paris Court of Appeal annulled a partial award rendered by a tribunal confirming its proper constitution under the 1976 United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Rules of Arbitration within the context of an appointment under the Agreement on Promotion and Protection and Guarantee of Investments among Member States of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC Agreement). Continue reading
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May 28, 2021
The 2020 SIAC Annual Report: Trends & Questions
One day short of April Fool’s Day this year saw the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) release its 2020 Annual Report (SIAC Report). Far from being a joke, the report presented some phenomenal figures that appear to cement deeper SIAC’s reputation as one of the leading international arbitration institutions, and Singapore’s reputation as a favoured arbitration hub. Continue reading