Keeping Up Appearances: Apparent Arbitrator Bias and the Requirements of Disclosure Examined by the English Commercial Court
In Aiteo Eastern E & P Company Ltd v Shell Western Supply and Trading Ltd & Ors [2024] EWHC 1993 (Comm) (01 August 2024), the Commercial Court considered in detail the principles set out in Halliburton Co v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd [2020] UKSC 48 (“Halliburton“) on the question of apparent bias of an arbitrator in a challenge…