Commercial Arbitration

Asia-Pacific, Commercial Arbitration, Domestic Courts, Enforcement, International arbitration, Investment Arbitration, Recognition and enforcement of arbitral award, Singapore, Singapore International Commercial Court

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and Paul Tan, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP Short answer: Yes for some actions, but not all. Here is why. The Singapore International Commercial Court (“SICC”) was launched in January 2015 and provides litigants with the benefits of court proceedings and international arbitration without the constraints and setbacks of either option. Thus far, murmurs of…

Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Commercial Arbitration, Dispute Resolution, LCIA Arbitration

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Herbert Smith Freehills

Two months ago I commenced a five-month secondment with the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), a change of scene from my usual post at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP in London where I am a New York-qualified associate working on both commercial and investment arbitration matters. While in many ways the secondment has so far…

Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Commercial Arbitration, Hybrid arbitration clause, Set aside an international arbitral award, Sweden

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Party autonomy is a well-established cornerstone of arbitration, which treats the parties as the true creators of the arbitral procedure. Hybrid arbitration clauses are built on this cornerstone. In a certain type of hybrid arbitration clause, the parties place the administration of arbitration in the hands of one arbitration institution by using the rules of…

Anti-arbitration, Arbitration, Commercial Arbitration, Domestic Courts, India

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Prior to 2012, India faced widespread criticism from the international arbitral community over a series of judgments concerning arbitration. Much has changed since 2012 – in the post-Bharat Aluminium (“BALCO”) era. A pro-arbitration approach by the judiciary was reflected in a series of judgments that came after the BALCO judgment, such as Reliance Industries (Reliance…

Arbitral Award, Arbitral seat, Arbitral Tribunal, Arbitration, Arbitration Act, Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Awards, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Arbitration Proceedings, Arbitrators, arbitrators’ conduct, Best practices, Commercial Arbitration, Document Production, Due process, International arbitration, International Legal Theory and Teaching, Procedure, Uncategorized

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As a fitting tribute to the vision of the first dedicated arbitration education institution, the School of International Arbitration (SIA) marked its 30th anniversary with a two day conference looking back and looking forwards. Entitled “The Evolution and Future of International Arbitration: The Next 30 years”, it brought together over 200 graduates, academics and practitioners…

Arbitration, Arbitration Act, Australia, Commercial Arbitration, Domestic Courts

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The question of what constitutes an “arbitration” is unlikely to be one that arbitral practitioners have cause to ponder on a daily basis. In fact, such a question might appear at first to be purely theoretical or academic. A recent case (ASADA v 34 Players) from the Victorian Supreme Court in Australia, however, shows the…

Arbitration Proceedings, Australia, Commercial Arbitration

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Herbert Smith Freehills

This article is published as a result of the cooperation agreement between  Kluwer Arbitration Blog and ArbitralWomen.  The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and should not be regarded as representative of, or binding upon ArbitralWomen and/or the author’s law firm. In 2010 Australia amended its International Arbitration Act (Cth) 1974 (IAA)…

Commercial Arbitration

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By Jawad Ahmad1)Jawad Ahmad is an Associate (Foreign Lawyer) at Rajah & Tann’s International Arbitration and Construction Practice in Singapore. LLB in European Legal Studies (Kent) (First Class Hons.); LLM (UC Berkeley). Attorney-at-law (New York). and Paul Tan2)Paul Tan is a Partner at Rajah & Tann’s International Arbitration and Construction Practice in Singapore. LLB (NUS)…

Appointment of arbitrators, Arbitral Tribunal, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Arbitration Proceedings, Commercial Arbitration, Corporate Counsel's view, Counsel, Uncategorized

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Critical negotiation moments punctuate the entire timeline of an international arbitration, from before it starts to even after it is over. And when these moments arise, a practitioner’s ability to negotiate effectively can sometimes be as important as their mastery of the subject matter. After all, what use is technical skill if you cannot deploy…

Arbitration, Class arbitration, Commercial Arbitration, Investment Arbitration

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

In the wake of hotly contested domestic and international developments, speakers at the Annual ITA-ASIL Conference in Washington, DC on April 9 gave varied and sometimes conflicting perspectives on the use of mass and class claims in arbitration. Mass Claims in Investment Arbitration – A Favorable View In her keynote speech, Carolyn B. Lamm of…

Anti-suit injunction, Arbitration Agreements, Commercial Arbitration, Enforcement of an arbitration clause, Jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal, Parallel Proceedings, Set aside an arbitral award, Switzerland, Uncategorized

(Editor in Chief, ASA Bulletin; LALIVE)/ /1 Comment

Arbitration proceedings sometimes spawn a host of parallel court proceedings.  It is not unheard for parties to seek to instrumentalise courts, sometimes with the complicity of the courts themselves, to escape the jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal.  Such conduct may, however, expose parties to liability for breach of the arbitration agreement, as was confirmed by…

Arbitration, Asia-Pacific, Commercial Arbitration, Domestic law, Hong Kong, International arbitration, Legislation, National Arbitration Laws

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Hong Kong is one of the major hubs for international arbitration in Asia. Its position was strengthened when, in 2012, India added Hong Kong to the list of so-called “gazetted” states: only arbitral awards rendered in these states will be recognised and enforced in India under the New York Convention. The inclusion of Hong Kong…

Commercial Arbitration, Domestic Courts, Interim Orders, Pro arbitration, Provisional measures, United States

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

[Written with the assistance of Nina Tandon and Andrew Behrman of Hogan Lovells US LLP] A recent ruling from a U.S. federal district court has highlighted an emerging doctrine in United States courts with respect to a party’s ability to seek provisional remedies from a court in support of international arbitration. The recent ruling, together…

Commercial Arbitration, UNCITRAL Model Law

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

When the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration was approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985, “uniformity of the law of arbitral procedures” was a stated purpose. The uncertainty produced by the disparity among the national laws was one of the drafters’ concerns. The other was the inadequacy of domestic laws to…

Arbitration, Asia-Pacific, Commercial Arbitration, Domestic law, Hong Kong, Legislation, National Arbitration Laws, Pro arbitration

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by Justin D’Agostino and Briana Young On 28 March 2013, Hong Kong gazetted The Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2013. The Bill proposes amendments to Hong Kong’s Arbitration Ordinance (Cap. 609) to implement an arrangement for mutual enforcement of awards between Hong Kong and Macao, allow for enforcement of emergency arbitrator decisions in Hong Kong, and provide…

Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Awards, Arbitration Proceedings, Commercial Arbitration, International arbitration, National Arbitration Laws, New York Convention, UNCITRAL Model Law

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This post is a little different… I am in the process of revising my treatise, International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer 2009), and would like to solicit comments from readers of the Kluwer Arbitration Blog on various chapters of the book. I would be happy to send individual Chapters, in their revised form, to those interested in…

Appointment of arbitrators, Arbitral Tribunal, Arbitration, Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Awards, Arbitration clause, Arbitration Proceedings, Arbitrators, Commercial Arbitration, Consumer contracts, Costs in arbitral proceedings, Discovery, Dispute Resolution, Dispute resolution clause, Efficiency, International arbitration, Mediation, Pre-arbitration Dispute Settlement Procedures, Uncategorized

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

A new study of dispute resolution practices in Fortune 1,000 corporations shows that many large companies are using binding arbitration less often and relying more on mediated negotiation and other approaches aimed at resolving disputes informally, quickly and inexpensively. The 2011 survey of corporate counsel developed by researchers at Cornell University’s Scheinman Institute on Conflict…

Book Review, Commercial Arbitration, United States

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WilmerHale

Winter holidays invite fun reading, including good professional reading, that most of the rest of the year forbids. Not exactly beach reads, but the same idea. And, this year, readers from the United States with interests in international arbitration, had their choice among a host of new offerings. Three warrant special mention. First, Professor Bo…

Arbitration, Arbitration Awards, Arbitration clause, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Arbitration Proceedings, Commercial Arbitration, Corporate Counsel's view, Domestic law, English Law, Expedited arbitration, ICC Arbitration, ICSID Convention, International arbitration, Investment Arbitration, LCIA Arbitration, New York Convention

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There are many clients who are often engaged in industrious works that result in disputes. Typically, the applicable arbitral agreements requirement submitting claims to international arbitration and, in this author’s opinion, appropriately so. However, these same clients may also be subject to frequent claim assertions that lack any true merit. Despite this, there is not…

Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Commercial Arbitration, ICC Arbitration, International arbitration, Investment Arbitration

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Last Monday I was honored with the opportunity to serve as one of the speakers for the annual ICC New York Conference. With an overflowing turnout and impressive list of panelists, it was a successful event. One interesting event of note was that the ICC took this opportunity to release the ICC Commission Report on…

Arbitration, Arbitration Awards, Arbitration Proceedings, Commercial Arbitration, Domestic Courts, Russia

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and Julia Popelysheva, Clifford Chance LLP Introduction On 19 June 2012 the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation (“SAC RF“) issued a decree (“Decree“) in case No. VAS-1831/12 in which it examined the validity of an optional jurisdictional clause. The full text of the Decree setting out the rationale for the…

Appeal, Arbitration, Commercial Arbitration, Domestic Courts, International arbitration, Latin America, Section 1782 Discovery, South America

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On June 25th, 2012 the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which covers all federal appeals emanating from the states of Florida, Georgia and Alabama, decided that a private commercial arbitration tribunal in Ecuador used by the parties to resolve a commercial dispute is a ‘tribunal’ for purposes of the collection of…

Arbitration, Commercial Arbitration, Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), National Arbitration Laws

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

I was asked the other day whether I would recommend that the United States not only ratify the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea—known as the “Rotterdam Rules”—but also adopt optional chapters 14 and 15 on the jurisdiction of courts and arbitration.1)As of June 2012 twenty-four…

Arbitration, Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration clause, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Arbitration Proceedings, Commercial Arbitration, International arbitration

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On 1 June 2012, the new revised version of the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration (“Swiss Rules”) will come into force.  According to Article 1.3, the new Rules will apply to all Swiss Rules proceedings in which the Request for Arbitration is submitted after 1 June 2012, unless the Parties agree otherwise. The Swiss Rules…