…of corruption by its users? According to a recent survey by the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy and the Queen Mary University of London, 81% of respondents considered confidentiality as…
…and ICSID Arbitration Rules. Article 26 of the ICSID Convention provides that “consent of the parties to arbitration under this Convention shall, unless otherwise stated, be deemed consent to such…
…New York Convention (“Convention”), including international precedents, and relevant Pakistani law on the recognition and enforcement of interim, foreign arbitral awards in Pakistan. The Convention The Convention does not…
…Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (“Singapore Convention”), which aims to ensure the enforceability of agreements to mediation. In 2023, the KSA published a draft mediation law, which promotes mediation as…
…the other hand, PMAC arbitral awards are enforceable pursuant to the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. The Role of the UPC…
…obligations of the UK under the ICSID Convention. It upheld the recognition of the intra-EU award and found ‘no proper grounds’ that would justify a different outcome. As Laura Rees-Evans…
…(“New York Convention”). Foreign seated awards can be executed in India, if it is an award seated in a New York Convention signatory state, on fulfilling two conditions as per…
…of reassurance comes from the KSA’s status as a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention”), increasing the likelihood…
…LatAm. Arbitrating Against State-Entities: Special Considerations Maria Fanou reminded us of “El No de Tokyo”, namely the opposition of LatAm countries against the adoption of a Convention contemplating an…
…framework treaties that supposedly preempt intra-EU arbitration and the Achmea/Komstroy decisions. And the Amicus further ignores the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which prohibits (in Articles 26 and…
…is not a member of the New York Convention. The UAE has not entered such reservation when becoming a member of the New York Convention although certain court decisions include…
…advisory centre and for procedural and cross-cutting issues. The Sixth Intersessional Meeting in Singapore on 7-8 September 2023 focused on a proposed standing multilateral mechanism and an appellate mechanism for…
…consistent with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the purpose and goals of the Paris Agreement. Investor-State Dispute Settlement ISDS-related provisions mentioning arbitration are also included. However,…
…The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) intervened in both these landmark cases and shared relevant Singapore jurisprudence on the issues before the Supreme Court, as well as its experience in…
…accordance with article 54(1) of the ICSID Convention, each Contracting State must recognise as binding any arbitral award issued under the Convention and enforce the financial obligations imposed therein on…
…the Republic of Azerbaijan. (See here for a discussion on the application of the New York Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Azerbaijan). While the Law…
…of Amsterdam dismissed Spain’s interim relief to stay the enforcement of Blasket in the US as a prima facie violation of the New York Convention holding that Spain used the…
…the procedural guarantees required by Art. 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Accordingly, the arbitration clause was held to be null and void. In the KSA, over the…
…an international commercial court as forum and the 2019 Singapore Mediation Convention ratifications remain few, while the EU-style investment court alternative to traditional ISA has not yet caught on); the…
…result in a breach of the FET, and the EU-Singapore Investment Protection Agreement notes, that “the frustration of legitimate expectations […] does not, by itself, amount to a breach” of…
…allowed for the first time for the use of arbitration in government contracts. On the international front, the KSA announced its accession to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for…
…Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 (“Indian Arbitration Act”) owing to India’s commercial reservation to the 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention”). Meanwhile,…
…arbitration seated in Singapore and conducted pursuant to the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Rules. TL’s Terms of Use also stated that there shall be no authority for any claims to…
…foreign element. Prior to that, courts could question the applicability of the New York Convention, concluding that certain disputes between Ukrainian legal entities fall under the notion of domestic arbitration,…
