SINGAPORE: City state reflects on progress

Sunday, 05 June 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 3 (Vol. 6 Iss. 3)

Singapore’s attorney general and the former head of arbitration at Rajah & Tann, Sundaresh Menon SC, spoke of the city state’s upward trajectory as an arbitration centre at the second Singapore International Arbitration Forum. Alison Ross reports

SINGAPORE: GAR Live ponders Jivraj

Friday, 03 June 2011

The UK case of Jivraj v Hashwani has led the arbitration community to fiercely defend nationality requirements for arbitrators – but does it actually matter where the members of a panel come from? asked delegates at the GAR Live conference in Singapore.

SYDNEY: Reforms and challenges in the Asia-Pacific region

Thursday, 02 June 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 3 (Vol. 6 Iss. 3)

A conference organised by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators on 27 and 28 May examined legislative reforms, technological challenges and the pros and cons of arb-med in the Asia-Pacific region. Douglas Jones AM, CIArb president and partner at Clayton Utz in Sydney, reports.

LONDON: Is arbitration suitable for a quadrillion-dollar market?

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 3 (Vol. 6 Iss. 3)

International arbitration has successfully been employed to settle disputes involving investors and states, sport and the internet, but Jan Paulsson warns it may not be a panacea for problems in the financial markets.

NICOSIA: Investment arbitration - a view from Cyprus

Sunday, 01 May 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 2 (Vol. 6 Iss. 2)

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Constantine Partasides shared his favourite statistic relating to investment arbitration: more than 80 per cent of ICSID awards are enforced voluntarily (more than 90 per cent before Argentina started digging in its heels in recent cases). Alison Ross reports

NICOSIA: Beechey condemns 'pernicious' arbitrator challenges

Sunday, 01 May 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 2 (Vol. 6 Iss. 2)

There has been a growth in a “particularly pernicious” form of tactical challenge to arbitrators designed to derail a tribunal whether or not the challenge succeeds, said the chairman of the ICC Court of Arbitration, John Beechey, at an event in Cyprus on 28 March. 

WASHINGTON, DC: Two types of arbitrators?

Sunday, 01 May 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 2 (Vol. 6 Iss. 2)

The ICSID system has been damaged by a reliance on arbitrators with a pure academic background who lack experience of the practicalities of commercial arbitration, an audience at American University heard on 22 March. Sebastian Perry reports

WASHINGTON, DC: Is ICSID losing its appeal… again?

Sunday, 01 May 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 2 (Vol. 6 Iss. 2)

Recent ad hoc committees have overstepped their authority but the harm they have done to the ICSID system should not be exaggerated, a conference in Washington, DC, heard. Sebastian Perry reports

SINGAPORE: Investment treaty jurisprudence - fragmented or consistent?

Thursday, 07 April 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 2 (Vol. 6 Iss. 2)

“Is there consistency in case law arising from investment treaty cases?” asked arbitrator J Christopher Thomas QC at a Centre for International Law seminar at Maxwell Chambers in Singapore. An attendee reports

HONG KONG: Introducing the new arbitration ordinance

Friday, 01 April 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 2 (Vol. 6 Iss. 2)

With the new Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance due to come into effect on 1 June, HK45 and the HKIAC Users' Council held a seminar on 22 March to examine the highlights of the new law and its practical implications. Jun Bautista, an associate at Baker Botts in Hong Kong, reports

MILAN: Transparency in international arbitration

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 2 (Vol. 6 Iss. 2)

The forthcoming 18th Vis Arbitration Moot will be conducted under the rules of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration. Daniele de Carolis of the University of Trento reports on an event organised by the Milan chamber to address one of the key issues in this year’s moot - that of transparency in international arbitration.

STOCKHOLM: The IBA rules of evidence - the Swedish context

Archive Article - Monday, 31 January 2011

Featured In: Volume 6 - Issue 1 (Vol. 6 Iss. 1)

A seminar in Stockholm looked at how the new IBA rules on the taking of evidence in international arbitration may affect international arbitration in Sweden and elsewhere for years to come, reports an attendee.