David Bateson, a partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Hong Kong, reports on the latest Kaplan lecture, in which UK appeal court judge Lord Justice Bernard Rix found inspiration in an Oscar Wilde quote on the nature of “truth”.

In its first Dutch seminar, the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum teamed up with Dutch arbitration boutique Conway & Partners and the Permanent Court of Arbitration for an event to consider the recent revisions of the ICC and UNCITRAL arbitration rules and the IBA rules on evidence. Thabiso van den Bosch of Conway & Partners reports on the event last week.

Joseph Profaizer and Daniel Prince, partner and associate at Paul Hastings in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, consider the availability of injunctive relief in aid of international arbitration in the US federal courts, identifying an unfortunate jurisdictional divide.

The Ukrainian Bar Association has launched annual "arbitration days" devoted to commercial and investment treaty arbitration, with the first event, late last year, attracting some 130 delegates from 15 countries.

An arbitration-related court proceeding in Singapore has been held sufficiently “difficult and complex” that the instruction of an English QC is justified. Darius Chan, an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in London explains the issues the court must tackle, which resemble those aired in the UK Supreme Court case of Dallah v Pakistan.

Christian Stuerwald, the head of case assessment at Calunius Capital in London and former head of Allianz Litigation Funding’s UK office until 2009, and Mick Smith, one of the co-founders of Calunius, consider the ICSID case of Fuchs and Kardassopoulos v Georgia, a rare public example of a funded investment treaty case.

In his last dispatch, the president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Doug Jones, a partner at Clayton Utz in Sydney, describes seeing his presidency to completion in Australia, Ireland and the UK.

Jeffrey Golden and Gerard Meijer speak to Alison Ross about their plans for a new institution in The Hague to resolve high-value disputes in the financial markets, drawing on the expertise of derivatives and arbitration specialists.

Nikolaus Pitkowitz, founding partner and head of dispute resolution at Graf & Pitkowitz in Vienna, reports on an unpublished decision of the Commercial Court of Vienna that refused to set aside the decision of a Vienna-seated UNCITRAL tribunal in a Danish-Polish telecoms dispute.

Simon Nesbitt and Michael Darowski, partner and senior associate at Hogan Lovells in London, consider the findings of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' recent costs survey and ask whether institutional transparency could help keep costs down.

The president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a partner at Clayton Utz in Sydney, Doug Jones, reports on a month on the move in London, New York, Beijing and Dubai.