…Group II to take up issues relating to expedited arbitration. Work on efficiency in arbitration in general may follow. Expedited arbitration is generally considered to be particularly appropriate for small…
UNCITRAL’s Working Group II (“WGII”) resumes next week its work on drafting expedited arbitration provisions (“EAPs”) for use with the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules (“UARs”). One of the key “aims” underlying…
…process concerns swirl around expedited arbitration in a similar fashion to, e.g., emergency arbitration, adjudication, and early dismissal, but expedited arbitration is the choice offering for a quicker avenue to…
…the Secretariat’s Note prepared for the session and made available on July 23, 2020. Expedited arbitration procedures have become commonplace in arbitration institutional rules, offering parties an opportunity to resolve…
…expedited arbitration provisions. ICSID Arbitration Rules and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, the main arbitration rules currently used for investment arbitration proceedings, are in the process of approving their first sets of…
…Arbitration’ Should Be the ‘Emergency Arbitration’ of 2020, Hamish Lal and Brendan Casey, ‘Ten Years Later: Why the ‘Renaissance of Expedited Arbitration’ Should Be the ‘Emergency Arbitration’ of 2020’, in…
…of arbitration in France and Ghana. One of the latter decisions is of particular interest, not least because it shows a continuous rift on international arbitration law in the courts…
…arbitration institutions, a powerful team of arbitration practitioners, a well-functioning system for training young arbitrators, an arbitration-friendly environment and geographical advantages. As you can see, establishing an international arbitration hub…
…contractual requirement of mediation before embarking on arbitration. This reflects the importance of relationships in our industry, and also the desire to avoid the costs of arbitration. Outside of this,…
…ICSID arbitration UP and C.D. Holding Internationale v Hungary or the ECT arbitration in Vattenfall v Germany (see e.g. here). More recently in June 2020, the ICSID tribunal in Addiko…
…led to the seizure and nationalization of the investments in July 2010. The investors subsequently brought a Stockholm Chamber of Commerce arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), alleging inter…
…including cross-examination (for instance in the so-called Prague Rules or Rules on the Efficient Conduct of Proceedings in International Arbitration), excluding them altogether seems too far-reaching in most cases. In…
…Paulo. Apelação Cível no. 1056400-47.2019.8.26.0100 [Appeal no. 1056400-47.2019.8.26.0100]. on the grounds that the chair of the arbitral tribunal had failed to timely disclose his appointment to another arbitration by one…
…agreed that the seat of arbitration would be Paris but did not mention any governing law for the arbitration agreement. In March 2015, Kabab-Ji filed a request for arbitration against…
…to arbitration, in light of the aforementioned, it seems that arbitration related data would be exempt from compliance under the law. It can be argued that arbitration satisfies at least…
…on the convenience that the more sophisticated institutional arbitration may offer, as opposed to ad hoc arbitration where the tribunal itself may be required to push the parties towards securing…
Arbitration has been the default dispute resolution mechanism in the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) regime for a long time. Provisions for third-party procedures other than arbitration have been relatively rare…
…illustrious names in the arbitration sphere. Arguing for the motion were: Mr Gary Born, President, SIAC Court of Arbitration; Chair, International Arbitration Practice Group, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr…
…Singapore, Mr Sundaresh Menon, delivered the keynote address on “Arbitration’s Blade: International Arbitration and the Rule of Law”. The plenary session on “International Arbitration: the Challenges and Changing Landscapes” followed…
…of the Court of Arbitration of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”). Thank you Ariel for joining us today. When (and why) did you become interested in arbitration? I…
…arbitration regardless of whether there is a provision in the applicable law.1)See Berger, General Principles of Law in International Commercial Arbitration: How to Find Them – How to Apply Them,…
…underpinnings. The EU seeks a partnership to regulate the post-Brexit relationship in full with a dispute settlement mechanism modelled on the Withdrawal Agreement. The latter provides for arbitration with mandatory,…
…(Xstrata) is a rare example of a successful challenge brought under section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (“the Act”). It serves as a reminder of the importance of paying…
…the ICC Rules 1998 unlawful under French Law. The Court reasoned that Article 34 by excluding liability “for any act or omission in connection with the arbitration”, would contradict the…
