Facts and Procedural BackgroundOn 25 November 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal dismissed an application to set aside an arbitral award rendered on 10 March 2022 under the ICC Rules in a dispute…
2025 was a year of transition for France being in the midst of reforming its arbitration law. This post highlights significant developments and judicial decisions of the past year. Reform of…
Fourteen years on from the enacting of the 2011 Decree which serves as the framework for French arbitration legislation, the work has begun to modernise the law, preserve its singularity, and enhance…
Alexis Martinez (Watson Farley & Williams) moderated an interesting panel discussion on the changes to the arbitration laws of England and the impending changes to the arbitration laws of France…
In line with the global movement of reform in Europe (see previous posts on recent reforms in the UK, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, Greece and Switzerland) and worldwide (e.g. China or Nepal), France…
On 20 March 2025, a working group consisting of arbitration practitioners, judges, arbitrators, and academics submitted a report to the French Minister of Justice. The report included proposals to…
Is there a statute of limitations applicable in France to requests for enforcement of foreign arbitral awards? On 10 December 2024, the Versailles Court of Appeal (the “Court”) responded in the…
In a year marked in France by the Paris Olympics and political instability, 2024 proved to be somewhat less eventful in terms of arbitration-related developments than previous ones (see 2023, 2022,…
On 2 May 2024, the Paris Court of Appeal set aside an ICC award rendered on 1 September 2016 in Paris due to the existence of facts likely to cause, in the minds of the parties, a reasonable doubt as…
57 years ago, the French Cour de Cassation's Galakis decision (Civ. 1re, 2 May 1966) laid down the principle that French public entities may, exceptionally, submit to arbitration disputes arising…
