The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has appointed one of its former legal counsel, Matthias Kuscher, as its permanent representative in Mauritius.

The law ministers of Singapore and India this week spoke at Maxwell Chambers in Singapore about the business relationship between their two countries, and their respective arbitral regimes.

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators has been called on to investigate the conduct of its board of trustees, amid claims that the association is facing "grave difficulties".

A parliamentary select committee has said India should enact legislation creating a special division of the Indian High Court to hear high value commercial disputes, and explore a similar plan for the Supreme Court.

Dieter Strubenhoff, 43, has left Hogan Lovells in Hamburg to join Jones Day as of counsel in Frankfurt.

Chiraag Shah and Harkiran Hothi have been made partners in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis.

Sarah Munro has moved from Hong Kong to become a senior consultant in Herbert Smith's Shanghai disputes practice.

A long-running dispute over a power plant near Dar es Salaam has entered a new phase, as one set of ICSID interpretation proceedings are dropped but a new claim is brought against Tanzania.

Canadian mining group First Quantum says it may launch a second claim against the Democratic Republic of the Congo - this time at ICSID - after the state took control of another of its copper projects.

A Chinese manufacturer of solar panel technology, LDK Solar, has filed an objection to an arbitration initiated by a Canadian company before the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in Shanghai.

ICSID has appointed arbitrators to hear a dispute between US maritime-services company Tidewater and Venezuela.

ICSID is on course to meet a prediction set by its Secretary-General, Meg Kinnear, having taken on 14 new cases in the first half of the year.