In its third issue for this year, Arbitration continues to target and engage with pressing questions which lie at the heart of international dispute resolution.In her Editorial to this issue,…
On 24 April 2026, the Dubai International Financial Centre (“DIFC”) Court of Appeal (“Court”) handed down Oheo Bank v Parker [2025] DIFC CA 006, understood to be the first occasion on which the DIFC…
This post considers decisions concerning sovereign immunity as a defence to enforcement of investor-State awards under the ICSID Convention and the New York Convention on the Recognition and…
On 4 March 2026, the UK Supreme Court delivered its decision on the long-running, multi-jurisdictional case of Kingdom of Spain v Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.à.r.l [2026] UKSC 9 (“ISL”). It…
In an earlier piece, we argued that mock arbitrations fail as predictive instruments. This article addresses the natural follow-up: if the method doesn't work, why do parties still pay substantial…
This is the first of two articles examining how parties prepare for high-stakes arbitration. Here we argue that the mock arbitration — the dominant preparatory tool in practice — suffers from…
The Institute of Transnational Arbitration (ITA), in collaboration with the ITA Board of Reporters, is happy to inform you that the latest ITA Arbitration Report was published: a…
International energy arbitration remains one of the busiest segments of institutional caseloads. According to published LCIA 2024 Annual Casework Report and ICC Dispute Resolution Statistics 2024,…
Dato’ Mary Lim Thiam Suan is the inaugural President of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (“AIAC”) Court, appointed with effect from 1 January 2026. Prior to this appointment, she served as…
Can a treaty waive something it never mentions? Stripped to its essentials, that was the question posed before the High Court of Australia and the English Court of Appeal, namely, whether a State’s…
