…just one year (2015) in its two offices in Oslo and Singapore. These are staffed by lawyers dedicated to working exclusively on funded arbitrations. Over time, the economic benefits associated…
…a 2015 survey, conducted by Queen Mary University of London, Hong Kong and Singapore are respectively the third and fourth preferred venues for international arbitration, behind London and Paris. While…
…when urgency reasons exist. Similar provisions are included in the Rules of Arbitration of other primary arbitral institutions such as the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Hong Kong International…
…The New York Convention is in force in all islands, to the exception of Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis and St Lucia, and the ICSID Convention is in force in…
…counsel. Similarly, under the competence conferred to ICSID’s Administrative Council under Article 6(1)(c) of the ICSID Convention to ‘adopt the rules of procedure for … arbitration proceedings,’ rules on counsel…
…final destination in London’s Guild Hall, the 29th GPC event since it debuted in Singapore in April 2016. At these events, over 2,000 stakeholders in commercial dispute resolution around the…
…provisions of the Decree. Hence, the results of mediations conducted by foreign mediation centres such as the Singapore International Mediation Center (SIMC), the Center for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), etc….
…claim that the award could be annulled by Dutch courts (Reasoned Decision on Challenge, para. 117). Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their…
…Convention. But it takes time… Statistically, an award is passed through seven court hearings at different instances before being recognized in Ukraine, despite Ukrainian legislation, which allows to recognize an…
…Bulgaria is a party to the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, enforcement of a foreign arbitral award may be refused if it is…
…the Consular Convention is available for the use of U.S.-based arbitration. Article 17(1)(e)(ii) of the Consular Convention provides that a U.S. consular officer may “take depositions, on behalf of the…
…measures can be resorted to in investor-state arbitration according to Article 47 of ICSID Convention, such measures are relatively useless when dealing with criminal proceedings brought by a State against…
…of the legal framework that investor relied on when making the investment. To arrive to this conclusion, the Tribunal interpreted Article 10(1) under Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on…
…The New York Convention by contrast, applies to 154 countries. Comparative regimes to the Hague Convention include the Brussels Convention (Recast) of 12 December 2012 (the “Brussels Recast”), applicable only…
…under Rule 41(5). Namely, on whether Eskosol could qualify as a national of another Contracting State under Article 25(2) (b) of the ICSID Convention, whether Eskosol was an instrumentality of…
…effectively by more efficient procedures. ARTICLES SECTION Chiann Bao, Third Party Funding in Singapore and Hong Kong: The Next Chapter Abstract: 2017 marks an important juncture for the arbitral community…
…of its right under Article 16(3) of the Model Law to challenge the Tribunal’s preliminary ruling that it had jurisdiction. Decisions in Singapore and Hong Kong The Singapore Court of…
…“AIQ.” The formal unveiling will occur in Singapore at an event hosted by the Drew & Napier law firm, supported by the Singapore International Arbitration Center, and officiated by none…
…‘Mauritius Convention’ must be signed and ratified as a mixed agreement. That is something the European Commission certainly would have wanted to avoid. The EU de jure replaced the Member…
…circumstances and, misunderstanding article 62 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, it also justified the termination of the BITs under that provision. As mentioned above, the 2008…
…but the tribunal may decline to make the additional award if it considers the request to be unjustified. Article 48(3) of the ICSID Convention, in contrast, expressly requires that an…
…the case of an arbitral tribunal deciding under the auspices of the Russian-Singapore Arbitration Court, whose award was not in the end recognized in Russia. The restrictions imposed on ad…
…set forth in Appendix VI […] shall take precedence over any contrary terms of the arbitration agreement.” (Art. 30 (1)) This corresponds to the reasoning of the Singapore High Court…
…essential for the existence of the ICSID Convention itself. To this extent, as highlighted by the Secretariat, the amendment of the ICSID Convention is not contemplated at this stage (and,…
