Amendment

Amendment, Arbitration Act, Caribbean, International arbitration, International Commercial Arbitration

(Attorney General's Chambers and Ministry of Legal Affairs of Guyana)/ /1 Comment

On May 17, 2024, Guyana passed the Arbitration Act 2024 (Act No. 6 of 2024) (“AA”). The AA repealed the outdated Arbitration Act, Cap 7:03, Laws of Guyana (Act No. 17 of 1916), passed more than a century ago, and makes Guyana the latest Commonwealth Caribbean country, after Trinidad and Tobago, which passed new legislation…

Amendment, Arbitration Act, Arbitration Reform, Papua New Guinea, UNCITRAL Model Law

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On 20 February 2024, Papua New Guinea (“PNG”) passed a dual-track legislative regime regulating arbitration (“New Arbitration Regime”), with the Arbitration (International) Act 2024 (“IAA”) governing international arbitration and a separate Arbitration (Domestic) Act 2024 (“DAA”) governing domestic arbitration. The New Arbitration Regime will come into operation upon the publication of a notice in the…

2020 In Review, Amendment, Anti-arbitration Injunction, Arbitrability, BIT, Enforcement, Fraud, India, kompetenz-kompetenz, Limitation period, Seat of the arbitration, Venue

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The “2019 in Review: India” started with a quote from Jeff Bezos that the 21st century belongs to India. Little did we know then that, one year later, Jeff Bezos’ Amazon would be fighting tooth and nail in a SIAC arbitration and related litigation in the Indian courts to claim a share of the burgeoning…

Amendment, Arbitration Act, Arbitration Act 1996, Enforcement, India

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In a bid to make its legal regime international arbitration-friendly, India has repeatedly amended its principal legislation, i.e. the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (the ‘Act’), over the last five years. The most recent one, the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 (the ‘2020 Amendment’), came into force on 4 November 2020 seeking “to address…