Dr Michael Pryles AO PBM LLD is a distinguished international arbitrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Dr Pryles began his career in academia, ultimately becoming the Henry Bournes Higgins Professor…
Few questions in international commercial arbitration are as contested now as the simplest one: is the system still working? The Finland Arbitration Institute’s 115th anniversary conference in August…
On 1 January 2025, Poland’s two primary arbitration institutions – the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce (Sąd Arbitrażowy przy Krajowej Izbie Gospodarczej, “SAKIG”) and the…
As global commercial centers compete for the title of “arbitration-friendly”, the competition is no longer just about geography, but about judicial consistency. In recent years, Türkiye has…
The factual matrix of the recently issued Supreme Court of India (“SCI”) judgment in Disortho appears deceptively simple. One party to a Distributor Agreement (“Agreement”) sought to apply the Indian…
May parties contractually dissociate the forum competent to adjudicate annulment proceedings from the seat of the arbitration? In other words, may they choose one city as the arbitral seat while…
