Practical Law

All I want for Christmas Is my arbitration award, My arbitration award, Just my arbitration award. Gee, if I could only have My arbitration award, Then I could wish you Merry Christmas. It seems so long since third party funding, Investment treaties, rules, seats and enforcement. Gosh, oh gee, How happy I’d be, For the … Continue reading Season’s greetings from the Practical Law Arbitration Blog →

At the 12th arbitration, the panel gave to me: 12 investors investing, 11 funders funding, 10 pledgers pledging, nine arbitration clauses, eight arbitral seats, seven Yukos awards, six revised rule sets, five BITs, four NAFTA fall-outs, three arbitrators, two Brexit parties, and the Achmea controversy.* As 2018 draws to a close, so the Practical Law Arbitration … Continue reading Arbitration blog over the 2018 holiday season →

The end is nigh for 2017 and with it a pause for the Practical Law Arbitration blog. We will be back with our first post of the new year on Tuesday 9 January, a look ahead to key anticipated arbitration developments in 2018. Until then, if your family has tired of the annual recital of … Continue reading Arbitration blog over the 2017 festive period →

It is not for me to judge whether you will want to remember 2016 fondly, whilst sipping on your Prosecco (or, following Brexit, English sparkling wine) over a turkey dinner, but it has certainly been an eventful year. This has no less been the case in the world of arbitration. As such, Practical Law Arbitration … Continue reading Expectations exceeded: looking back on 2016 →

A number of years ago, in the middle of a small loch, the kayak I was manning capsized, plunging me into the murky depths of muddy weeds and foul water. Ever since, because of the unique way in which my craft crashed down upon me, I have had to put up with a left shoulder … Continue reading Managing expectations: Looking ahead in 2016 →