Australian Arbitration Week Recap: Blood, Sweat and T … ribunals
…of an international body in a domestic sport, like Australian rules football, means that referrals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) are of limited attraction to the AFL…
…of an international body in a domestic sport, like Australian rules football, means that referrals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) are of limited attraction to the AFL…
…Australian Arbitration Week. The panel was moderated by Cara North of Corrs Chambers Westgarth and comprised: The Honourable Dr Annabelle Bennett AC SC, retired judge of the Federal Court of…
…creation of the Supreme Court of Western Australia’s Arbitration List. Prior to becoming Chief Justice, Mr Martin was a senior member of the Western Australian Bar, having taken silk in…
…parties (for a more extensive account of the facts, see here). Court decisions, upheld on appeal, established on the one hand, GSI’s copyright over the data. On the other hand,…
…the Supreme Court gave some interesting guidance on the application of the VCLT. Last but not least, on 24 April 2023, the Supreme Court rejected an application to annul the…
…in the application of laws are important in both court litigation and arbitral proceedings, the problem of ‘forum shopping’ (i.e., a party attempting to obtain advantages by choosing to initiate…
…the SIAC Rules 2016 allows the President who is defined as “the President of the Court and includes any Vice President and the Registrar” to remove an arbitrator in certain…
…application of section 103(2)(b), the Supreme Court analysed section 67, amongst other provisions. Despite acknowledging the competence-competence doctrine, the Supreme Court held that the court at the place of enforcement…
…parties being able to arbitrate sports disputes in Jakarta instead of having to go to Lausanne, and the Indonesian Supreme Court’s efforts to correct lower courts’ decisions, to support arbitration….
…K Shanmugam, SC (Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law, Singapore) and a plenary address by Justice Judith Prakash (Justice of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Singapore)….
In 2010, the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China (the “SPC”) issued the Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on Case Guidance (the “Provisions”). The Provisions are…
…US Supreme Court has rendered its decision on this issue in Coinbase v Bielski (2023). Third, who has offered/accepted the contract: avatars or programmers of the smart contracts. Offer/acceptance requires…
The São Paulo Court of Appeals (“TJSP or “Court”) recently annulled a quantum arbitral award and referred the case back to the arbitral tribunal because one of the three arbitrators…
On July 26, 2023, the Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB) organized a webinar on New Developments of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). The discussion was introduced by Claus von…
…are subjected to the same impartiality and independence provisions as court-appointed experts in state court litigations. The PCEB issues expert opinions to establish the scope of works to be carried…
…the issue. For instance, the UK Supreme Court in the Halliburton Company v. Chubb case ([2020] UKSC 48) and the US Supreme Court in the Commonwealth Coatings v. Continental Casualty…
…court to stay legal proceedings to uphold an arbitration agreement, recognising their formal validity unless the agreement is found to be null, void, or incapable of being performed (see Section…
…recent Dubai Court of Cassation’s ruling was the Court’s clarification – in derogation from previous rulings of the Dubai Court of Cassation (for example in Dubai Court of Cassation Case…
…Law. Among its salient features is the Award Review Tribunal (ART) mechanism, outlined in Section 56. This distinctive, innovative procedural offers an alternative to traditional court challenges that potentially streamlines…
…court’s decision to reject an application for the appointment of an arbitrator. As a second question, the Supreme Court evaluated whether a pathological dispute resolution clause referring to a non-existent…
…campaign featuring the carbon offset product, ‘CO2Zero’, which involved reforestation projects that supposedly compensated for KLM’s flight emissions. A Dutch court recently made a preliminary ruling on standing in favour…
…of law made by the parties. Belgian Supreme Court’s Former Classic Protectionist Stance In its landmark 1979 Audi-NSU v. Adelin Petit decision (28 June 1979), the Belgian Supreme Court,…
…day. This petition was filed before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and is still pending. The Tribunal’s Decision The Tribunal issued its…
…to effectuate justice, similar to a court of law but in a confidential setting and with adequate speed, including in the form of emergency arbitration if so requested. According to…