On 12 February 2024, Israel achieved a significant milestone in the promotion of international commercial arbitration with the enactment of the International Commercial Arbitration Law, 2024 (the “…
In January 2023, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance in Grand Ocean & Williams Co Limited v. Huaxicun Offshore Engineering Co Ltd (江苏华西村海洋工程服务有限公司) [2023] HKCFI 86 ("Grand Ocean”) held that an…
On 8 September 2023, a tribunal comprising Prof. Ricardo Ramírez Hernández (President), Prof. John Gotanda and Prof. Philippe Sands issued its award in Glencore Finance (Bermuda) Ltd v. Bolivia (PCA…
One of the proposed changes to the English Arbitration Act 1996 (the "Act") introduced in the Arbitration Bill is an express power for tribunals to make an award on a summary basis in relation to any…
On 23 October 2023, the English High Court handed down a landmark decision setting aside a USD 11 billion arbitral award (the final award) obtained by a British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) company,…
We are happy to inform you that the latest issue of the journal is now available and includes the following contributions:
Maxim Osadchiy, Calibrating De Novo: Judicial Review of Arbitral…
In a decision dated 29 December 2023, the Chilean Court of First Instance upheld an earlier decision dated 7 November 2023, which had granted a pre-judicial conservatory measure in support of a…
Six unpublished awards rendered under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce are now available on the KluwerArbitration database, as part of the 2023 volume of the ICCA Awards Series.…
Today, concurrent with the 75th anniversary of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute ("NAI"), the new 2024 NAI Arbitration Rules (the "NAI Rules") will enter into force and be applicable to NAI…
The UK Supreme Court (“UKSC”) in Tui UK Ltd v. Griffiths [2023] UKSC 48 recently considered the question whether a party must challenge a witness and expert evidence in cross-examination if it wants…
