The potential intervention of Indian courts over foreign seated arbitrations is a hot topic in international arbitration. On 28 May 2014, the Supreme Court of India ("SCI") heated up the debate by…
Exorbitant jurisdiction is generally described as comprising domestic courts’ powers in cross-border litigation to assume jurisdiction based on a very thin (although in the courts’ view sufficient…
Chair: Klaus Reichert SC (London)
Main Speakers: Dr. Aloysius Llamzon (The Hague), Anthony Sinclair (London)
Commentators: Utku Cosar (Istanbul), Carolyn B. Lamm (Washington, DC)
Rapporteur:…
By Roland Ziadé and Claudia Cavicchioli, Linklaters LLP
On 17 December 2013, the Paris Court of Appeal added a new chapter to the Jnah vs. Marriott saga, when it ruled on an action to set aside an…
A judgment of the European Court of 17 October 2013 (C-184/12) honors gold plated provisions when considered mandatory. Member state courts are allowed to consider their national gold-plating (the…
and Afolabi Euba and Hamid Abdulkareem, Aluko & Oyebode, Lagos, Nigeria
In the course of 2012, a number of injunctions have been issued by Nigerian courts to stop arbitrations commenced by…
In a recent decision, the Mauritian Supreme Court has roundly rejected a challenge to an arbitrator’s jurisdiction brought under section 20 of the Mauritian International Arbitration Act 2008, and in…
By Crenguta Leaua and Stefan Dudas (Leaua & Asociatii)
A new Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) including two separate sections on domestic and international arbitration entered into force in Romania on…
Akbar the Great once drew with his royal hand a line in the sand. He then told his wise men that if they wanted to keep their jobs, they must invent a way to make the line shorter without touching…
