Fabian Bonke, Author at Kluwer Arbitration Blog

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Paris Arbitration Week Recap: The Impact of COVID-19 on International Construction Projects and Disputes: Is It Really All That Bad?

Fabian Bonke (Hogan Lovells)/July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 /Leave a comment

How severely are international construction projects affected by global COVID-19 pandemic? What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for international construction disputes? As with so many other questions arising in relation to the pandemic, these questions will only be answered definitively in retrospect. For construction arbitration practitioners though, one of the immediate and graspable effects has…

Arbitration institution, Interview, Interviews with Our Editors, SCC, SCC Rules, Sweden, UNCITRAL

Interviews with Our Editors: Nordic Innovations for Arbitration with Annette Magnusson

Fabian Bonke (Hogan Lovells)/June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 /Leave a comment

Welcome to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, Ms. Magnusson! We are grateful for this opportunity to learn more about the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and your experience with international arbitration in the region. To start, could you briefly introduce yourself and explain your role at SCC? Thank you….

Interview, Interview of our editors

Interviews of Our Editors: “What Does Kluwer Arbitration Blog Mean to You?”

Esmé Shirlow (Associate Editor) (Australian National University), Fabian Bonke (Hogan Lovells), Zahra Rose Khawaja (Dentons & Co, Dubai), and Arie C. Eernisse (Peter & Kim)/May 3, 2020May 2, 2020 /1 Comment

In January 2009, Professor Roger Alford published the first post on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog (the Blog), launching what is now considered an indispensable tool for arbitration practitioners and academics alike. Today, the Blog offers daily perspectives on the latest developments in international arbitration, reflecting our “unique” and “fascinating” international arbitration community. Our 31 editors,…

Construction, Construction arbitration, Energy, Infrastructure, Third party funding

How to Fund Construction Disputes – Relying on Third-Party Funding?

Fabian Bonke, Tara Theiss (Hogan Lovells)/December 24, 2019January 16, 2020 /Leave a comment

It is well known that disputes arising from the realisation of major energy and infrastructure projects are often exceptionally complex, long, and expensive. They are of high factual and technical complexity with a great volume of evidence, witnesses and experts and involve multiple parties with the fragmentation of responsibilities. As such, one of the main…

Climate change, Commercial Arbitration, DIS, Germany, Permanent Court of Arbitration

Tuesday for Future – Arbitration and Climate Change: DIS40 Autumn Conference

Fabian Bonke (Hogan Lovells)/October 2, 2019October 1, 2019 /Leave a comment

As the world marched in support of global action on climate change, the German DIS40/below 40 arbitrators’ group showed its support for the cause at a conference on Arbitration and Climate Change on 10 September 2019. After a warm welcome by DIS federal coordinator Jennifer Bryant (Noerr) the conference started off with a panel discussion…

Arbitration, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Arbitration Proceedings, Construction, Construction arbitration, Dispute Resolution, Document Production, Expert evidence, Hearings, IBA, IBA Rules of Evidence, International arbitration, Prague Rules

Do the Prague Rules Provide for an Efficient Resolution of Construction Arbitration Disputes?

Fabian Bonke (Hogan Lovells)/July 20, 2019July 19, 2019 /Leave a comment

The main concerns of parties when considering arbitration are the costs and length of arbitration proceedings (see, e.g., Queen Mary University of London 2018 International Arbitration Survey). The popularity of arbitration as a method of resolving construction disputes thus depends largely on whether costs can be reduced and efficiency maintained. This is particularly the case…

2018 In Review, Austria, DIS, Germany, HKIAC, ICC, ICC Arbitration, ICC Rules, SCC, SIAC, VIAC

2018 In Review: Recent Revisions of Institutional Rules in Europe – Where Do Europe’s Arbitral Institutions Now Stand Against Global Competition?

Fabian Bonke (Hogan Lovells)/January 29, 2019January 28, 2019 /Leave a comment

As worldwide competition amongst arbitral institutions continues, the Europe-based arbitral institutions have, thus far, been able to defend their strong market position. Currently, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), with its base in Paris, continues to stand out globally as the most preferred institution by a significant margin (77%). It is followed by the London…

Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Enforcement, Expedited arbitration, ICC Arbitration, ICC Rules

Overriding an Explicit Agreement on the Number of Arbitrators – One Step Too Far under the New ICC Expedited Procedure Rules?

Fabian Bonke (Hogan Lovells)/May 22, 2017May 7, 2017 /5 Comments

Expedited arbitration procedure, which allows procedural streamlining of arbitration proceedings, became widely accepted by arbitration institutions. The ICC followed this global trend by incorporating Expedited Procedure Rules into the ICC Rules which came into force on 1 March 2017 (see here). The incorporation of expedited procedures is a response to the need to control the…