In CCC v AAC [2025] HKCFI 2987 (“Judgment”), the Hong Kong Court of First Instance (Sir William Blair) ("Court") held that service of a Notice of Arbitration was validly issued via a link contained…
According to Queen Mary University’s 2025 International Arbitration Survey, 77% of respondents considered it “appropriate for arbitrators to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) to assist in…
Australia's defence sector is at a critical inflection point. In the wake of rising global conflicts, Australia is strengthening its strategic alliances through the Australia-United Kingdom-United…
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (“ACICA”), ACICA45, the ACICA’s group for young and emerging practitioners, hosted a thought…
In the silence of coded chains and cryptographic consensus, a new form of adjudication has emerged—one that claims the name of “justice” without courts, robes, or borders. This is decentralised…
Natural language processing (“NLP”) artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools are booming in the legal industry, and international arbitration is no exception. Practitioners are harnessing AI to boost…
With its launch underway, the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (“PMAC”) is set to become the new hub for resolving patent disputes outside of court. The PMAC was established under the same…
On 7 May 2025, over 300 participants gathered in Stuttgart, Germany for the annual Spring Conference of the German Arbitration Institute (“DIS”) entitled “The Revolution of Arbitration – Is…
The thirty-three identical towers that once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri, collapsed in a grey cloud of dust. They were once the future. In the 1950s, rationalist architect Minoru Yamasaki…
