The takeover of the Chinese-owned British Steel Limited by the UK Government under the Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2015 can lead to the submission of a dispute to investment treaty…
In February 2025, the Court of Appeal of England & Wales unanimously dismissed Russia’s appeal against the English High Court’s decision that issue estoppel applies to its determination of the…
In a recent decision of 27 January 2025, in Baker Hughes Saudi Arabia Company Limited v. Dynamic Industries, Incorporated & Ors, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“COA”)…
The much-touted 7th Edition of the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC Rules 2025”) came into force earlier this year on 1 January 2025. The SIAC Rules 2025…
Unilateral option clauses ("UOCs"), also known as asymmetric or split arbitration clauses, grant one party the exclusive right to choose between litigation and arbitration while binding the other…
In a tribunal comprising three members, a unanimous arbitral award depicts the agreement of all members to the award. It has been argued that a single arbitrator’s bias in such a tribunal does not…
The Ontario Court of Appeal (“The Court”) has overturned the decision of an application judge who refused to set aside an arbitral award despite a finding of a reasonable apprehension of bias…
The conference on "Arbitration and Mediation in Industrial Property," during Paris Arbitration Week (“PAW”) 2025, brought together legal scholars, judges, arbitrators, and mediators to explore how…
Recent amendments to the United Nations (“UN”) Model Tax Convention aim at banning the use of investor-State dispute settlement (“ISDS”) provisions for disputing tax measures, thereby attempting to…
Paris Arbitration Week (“PAW”) featured multiple discussions on the growing importance of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in arbitration proceedings, a much-debated topic. Issues such as the slow…
