GTH v. Canada may sound familiar to media entities
On June 6, 2016, the ICSID Secretary General registered a request for arbitration in Global Telecom Holding (GTH) v. Canada. Although the text of the arbitral claim is not yet…
On June 6, 2016, the ICSID Secretary General registered a request for arbitration in Global Telecom Holding (GTH) v. Canada. Although the text of the arbitral claim is not yet…
…and if it has not been specified, the tribunal will apply the law of the respondent, including the rules on conflict of laws and such rules of international law as…
…New York Convention. Therefore, its provisions applied to the present dispute. The New York Convention provides that, as a general principle, and subject to any permissible reservations that it has…
Professor Pieter Sanders in 1999 famously asked “Quo Vadis Arbitration”? (Where do you go Arbitration?). In the Indian context this question is particularly relevant in light of the ever-fluctuating framework…
…in arbitration. BOOK REVIEWS Sigvard JARVIN, Book Review –ICC Arbitration in Practice, by Herman Verbist, Erik Schäfer, and Christoph Imhoos, 2nd edn. Jonathan LIM, Book Review – Arbitration in China:…
…to arbitrators. Multiparty and multi-contract disputes. The draft new rules include provisions designed for more efficient resolution of complex disputes. Article 13 of the draft Arbitration Rules provides for joinder…
…the athletes’ own interest to have such a system in place and sign an arbitration agreement. According to the BGH, the arbitration system of CAS offers advantages to both the…
…be able to initiate investment arbitration proceedings. Background of the case Philip Morris International (PMI), a company incorporated in New York, produces cigarettes and owns several subsidiaries and affiliates globally…
…rule of good faith, a party’s conduct can cure formal shortcomings in the arbitration agreement under Art. II(2) NYC. In the Court’s words: “In the context of international arbitration, the…
…providing for the possibility of arbitral tribunals rendering partial awards on key issues, institutional arbitration rules are rather silent when it comes to the issue of arbitral decisions on preliminary…
…the dispute to be resolved by arbitration administered by SIAC in Singapore, with the governing law of the contract being PRC law. Golden Landmark commenced arbitration proceedings against Siemens and…
…the heart of Abu Dhabi (see my previous reporting here), entered into a Memorandum of Understanding concerning cooperation in legal and judicial matters with immediate effect from that date (for…
…in annulment proceedings In Ecuador, pursuant to Article 30 of Arbitration and Mediation Act 1997 (“AMA”) parties to an arbitration only have a statutory right to challenge arbitral awards by…
…dispute is arbitrated, it may be under the ICSID Convention and the ICSID Arbitration Rules, ICSID Additional Facility Rules, the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, the Regional Centre for Arbitration at Kuala…
…of arbitration: seating a DIAC arbitration in the DIFC will import the application of the DIFC Arbitration Law (see DIFC Law No. 1 of 2008), which is modeled on the…
A few months ago, Queen Mary University of London and White & Case released their third International Arbitration Survey entitled “Improvements and Innovations in International Arbitration”. One of the many…
…arbitration rules, (iii) the default-appointment of arbitrators under the EMAC arbitration rules, (iv) the registration process of eligible arbitrators and their inclusion in the EMAC roster of arbitrators, (v) determining…
…customary rules of nationality in the BIT context, Childress further suggested that when a BIT is silent on the question of dual nationality, international customary rules of diplomatic protection may…
…balance on international arbitration tribunals”, Arbitration International, vol. 28, n°4, 2012, page 653, and “Is the balance getting better? An update on the issue of gender diversity in international arbitration”,…
…half of legal advisors agreed. Two-thirds of users supported using dispute resolution provisions that required mediation prior to arbitration or litigation, but few advisors embraced that view. There were also…
…the tribunal’s written arbitration award. The New York Convention provides recognition of the arbitral tribunal’s “liberty of decision”. Article II (3) of the Convention implicitly requires a domestic court to…
…arbitration. In a country were a large part of attention is given to investment arbitration, in view of the number of cases Argentina is / was part, the achievement of…
…to fewer appeals. Lord Saville emphasised that the users of arbitration “have expressly agreed to use arbitration as their method of dispute resolution. By doing so they have agreed to…
…Centre (the “Center”) and a Code of Conduct of Arbitrators are almost ready and expected to be officially in place. These rules contemplate a number of hybrid rules, including: (1)…