From 20 to 22 November 2024, the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA) hosted the second edition of the JCAA Arbitration Days, as part of the inaugural Japan International Arbitration Week…
…Arbitration Week is available here. References[+] References ↑1 For cases filed under the currently effective JCAA Arbitration Rules 2021, the expedited arbitration procedures have an average duration of 3.1 months…
…construction projects of significant scale and complexity, disputes are unavoidable. With the introduction of the new arbitration rules of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (“SCCA”), resolving construction disputes in…
…and has influenced the ways in which public discourse on arbitration is currently conducted. While originally the new ideas in international arbitration were introduced mainly by a few academic reviews,…
…the New Law. The New Law also offers stronger investor protections, particularly the obligation for the state to respect investor rights even in the public interest. This fosters legal certainty…
…law as the law of the place of arbitration would apply. In a London-seated arbitration, a sole arbitrator ordered reimbursement to a claimant in a dispute over supply contracts for…
…climate-friendly provisions in international investment agreements, enabling counterclaims in investment treaty arbitration. However, he argued that the adoption of such provisions as a tool to ease the tensions between the…
For over a decade, diversity in the field of arbitration in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”) has been on a positive trajectory. In 2012, the Saudi Arbitration Law (Royal…
…eventually brought in Arbitration C which was commenced in December 2022. In May 2023, Arbitration C was consolidated with Arbitration A and B (collectively, “the Arbitration”). On 28 July 2023,…
…ICSID’s new cases, and Latin American private parties were among the most frequent users of ICC arbitration. Traditionally, London has not been an obvious choice of seat for disputes originating…
…68 of the 1996 English Arbitration Act (the “Arbitration Act”), leading to the proceedings before the Court. Shortly before the commencement of the hearing, the Claimants introduced further evidence into…
…also be found in many major arbitration rules (e.g., Art. 34(4) 2021 UNCITRAL Rules, Art. 33(2) 2021 ICDR Rules, Art. 26(6) 2020 LCIA Rules, Art. 36(3) 2021 VIAC Rules, and…
In an attempt to modernize Pakistan’s legal regime on arbitration, the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan assembled the Arbitration Law Review Committee (the “ALRC”), and tasked it to prepare…
…an arbitration clause that provided for disputes to be resolved by arbitration seated in Singapore, commenced under the rules of arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”). In 2020,…
In May 2024, an LCIA tribunal issued an award in a multi-million-dollar arbitration involving the construction, operation, and service provision of a coal transportation and storage system. The case, which…
…addition to the UNCITRAL Model Law, the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and the Arbitration Rules of recognized arbitration centers such as the ICC Court, the LCIA, the HKIAC, the SIAC, the…
…commission”; and arbitration agreements designating the application of foreign arbitration rules such as the ICC Rules are of questionable validity under PRC Arbitration Law. Another consequence is that ad hoc…
…which contain an arbitration agreement. As arbitration arises through contracts, it is hard to envision how arbitration can arise in a greenwashing context other than under B2C contracts. B2C contracts…
On the first day of Seoul Arbitration Festival 2024, law firms Yoon&Yang, 39 Essex Chambers, and Al Tamimi & Company hosted a panel discussion titled ‘New and Renewable Energy Landscape…
…CME initiated an ICC arbitration seeking payment of the outstanding invoices and of the remaining value of the agreement. Respondent CBI, although duly notified throughout the arbitration, did not participate…
…initiated under Article 1120(1) of the NAFTA and Article 3 of the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law of 1976 (“the Rules”). The Claimant asserted…
…at issue under the FSIA’s arbitration exception. The FSIA’s arbitration exception removes foreign state’s jurisdictional immunity in cases involving, inter alia, enforcement of arbitration awards that are based on “agreement…
…rules used by arbitral tribunals and national courts acting in arbitration-related litigation (as opposed to courts acting in an insolvency capacity). These rules are primarily the New York Convention (“NYC”)…
…this would offer each recognising jurisdiction discretion to establish their own rules regarding the lifting of stays and hence potentially reintroduce the very conflicts that the new model proposed by…
