On 22 March 2017, with minimal fanfare, the Civil Law and Justice Amendment Legislation Bill 2017 ("2017 Bill”) was introduced into the upper house of the federal Parliament. Buried within this…
From left to right: Aaron King, James Plotkin, Natalie Kolos, Chloe Waind, Dora Konomi, Emily Bradley, Emily McMurtry, Prof. Anthony Daimsis, Eric Bergsten (moot founder), the final bench:…
Throughout the modern history of mankind, trade wars accompanied almost every military or political conflict between hostile states, ready to take the most radical actions for the sake of the victory…
One of the goals of “ICCA’s Guide to the Interpretation of the 1958 New York Convention: A Handbook for Judges” - as stated by Neil Kaplan in the Guide’s introduction - is to assist judges around the…
Sierra Leone’s inaugural Commercial Law Summit was held this March (2017) on the theme of facilitating responsible private sector development through improvements in commercial law justice (Hebert…
In his 2014 Assenting Opinion on a security for costs motion in RSM v. Saint-Lucia, arbitrator Dr. Gavin Griffith Q.C. described third-party funders as “mercantile adventurers” and associated their…
The use of tribunal secretaries in arbitration is a hotly debated topic. For some time now, the use of a secretary has been increasing in the interests of cost and time efficiency. For some however,…
Over the past few decades, alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") has become the preferred method of conflict management in the commercial world. Contemporary trends in dispute resolution aim at…
Savvy litigators often tell their clients that “a bad settlement always beats a good litigation”. That may be partly because there is embarrassingly scant guidance in the literature, or even in the…
