…adopts many key provisions of the UNCITRAL Transparency Rules. Conclusion As noted in a previous post, both UNCITRAL Transparency Rules and Convention were born as a response to the…
…in its eighth year, the ISDS Reform Conference earlier this year and the ICCA Congress coming up in 2022. A significant recent development is the Mutual Arrangement on Interim Measures…
…as loss of fees. The UNCITRAL Secretariat will now proceed to develop a proposal in collaboration with ICSID. 4. Third-party funding The final topic for reform was third-party funding….
…in arbitration? I started my career at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) where I administered cases under the SIAC Rules or UNCITRAL Rules. I then did a legal internship…
Arbitrators and tribunal-appointed experts are at all times obliged to disclose any and all circumstances that might give rise to doubts as to their impartiality and independence. This is one…
In his post of 30 August 2019, Pablo Pérez-Salido discussed the proposal at UNCITRAL’s Working Group III for the establishment of an Advisory Centre on International Investment Law (ACIIL). This…
…25th anniversary of the enactment of the Egyptian Arbitration Law no. 27/1994 modelled after the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law. In celebration of this special occasion, Ibrahim SHEHATA shares recent developments…
…under the UNCITRAL Rules with Johannesburg as the seat of arbitration. Vedanta, therefore, filed for arbitration against the ZCCM. Vedanta also successfully obtained an ex parteorder in the High Court…
…do Contracting States want? Contracting States, stakeholders and the publics have submitted reform proposals regarding arbitrator challenges to the UNCITRAL secretariat, in preparation of UNCITRAL Working Group III meetings. Chief…
…which it intends to challenge have become known to that Party, but no later than 90 days after the Organizational Meeting;” Modeled on Article 13(1) of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules,…
…land reform program and compulsory acquisition of agricultural lands. The SADC Tribunal’s decision, in 2008, in favor of the applicants in the case of Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd. and others…
…other.4)See G. Carducci, 2012. “The Arbitration Reform in France: Domestic and International Arbitration Law”. Arbitration International, 28(1), pp.125-158. Even when a country regulates domestic and international arbitration in the same…
…to be shaped by the legitimacy crisis in investment treaty arbitration and ongoing global debates about reform. Three Reasons Why an ISDS Mechanism Could be Expected There are at…
…created to partially reform the CCCN has already prepared a preliminary draft, which includes an amendment to Article 1651. Such amendments tend to harmonize with Articles 736 and 737 of…
…arbitration agreement. Non-signatories may also assume the rights and obligations arising under a contract, under certain conditions”. UNCITRAL has also recommended that Article II(2) “be applied as recognizing that the…
…must be necessarily conducted in accordance with the UNCITRAL Rules of Arbitration in force at the time of the filing of the request for arbitration.4)Art. 6 of the São Paulo…
…launched in The Hague in December 2019. The Rules The Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration are based on the UNCITRAL Rules from 2013. The UNCITRAL Rules…
…proceedings. Based on the UNCITRAL Model Law, it introduced some changes while taking into account the desire to promote Portugal as a seat for international arbitration. The existence of Chapter…
…for Further Deepening the Reform and Opening-up of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone” issued by the State Council in 2015 (the “2015 Plan”). The Statement represents an important step…
…the choice of law for international contracts,” approved by the Hague Conference on Private International Law in 2015. UNCITRAL, the ICC, the IBA and other organizations related to the arbitral…
…Conciliation Act 1996, as amended in 2019, lays out India’s arbitration law, inspired largely by the UNCITRAL Model Law. Section 7 simply provides that an arbitration agreement is any agreement…
…552. This was revised in 2018 by the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Mediation and International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, 2018 (amending the UNCITRAL Model Law on International…
…reason, the UNCITRAL Model Law mediation was recently adopted. It aims to guide the signatories to draft laws suited to their needs to support the Singapore Convention. Depending on each…
…efforts to narrow down the different reform proposals received and to establish a workplan to accomplish such reform. To date, only the following governments have filed submissions with the WGIII:…
