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One year ago, in May 2021, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (“SCC”) extended its portfolio of dispute resolution services with the SCC Express Dispute Assessment (“SCC Express”). The SCC Express constitutes a new, hybrid form of dispute resolution between arbitration and mediation. Depending on what the Parties want, the SCC Express offers them a binding or non-binding legal assessment of their dispute(s) by a neutral professional. The SCC’s biggest marketing points…

TVL Int’l, LLC v. Zheijiang Shenghui Lighting Co., No. 3:19-CV-00393-RJC-DCK (W.D.N.C. Feb. 2, 2021) [click for opinion] In 2014, Plaintiff TVL International, LLC (“TVL”), a Delaware corporation, and Defendants Zheijiang Shenghui Lighting Co., Ltd. (“Zheijiang”), a Chinese LED light bulb manufacturer, and SengLED USA, Inc. (“SengLED”), Zheijiang’s U.S. subsidiary, executed a non-disclosure agreement relating to their efforts to jointly develop a “battery back-up LED light bulb”. By 2015, the parties had stopped working together and eventually…

The Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC), which is the largest Brazilian arbitration institution, has recently enacted two resolutions implementing significant developments: Resolution 44/2020 on emergency arbitrators and Resolution 46/2021 on expedited procedure. Emergency Arbitrator According to Resolution 44, the emergency arbitrator is available to parties subject to arbitration agreements entered into after November 25, 2020 on an “opt-out” basis (i.e, applicable unless the parties jointly agree otherwise). For…

In its landmark decision under docket no. 18 ONc 3/20s[1], published on 28 September 2020, the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof “OGH”) established two important principles for arbitral tribunals seated in Austria: The conduct of hearings via videoconference – despite a party’s express objection – lies within the arbitral tribunal’s discretion and does not meet the high threshold of arbitrator challenges. (RS0133230)[2]A negative, non-verbal reaction (here: “eye rolling”) of an arbitrator to a verbal pleading…