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Canada: British Columbia modernizes its international commercial arbitration legislation

July 10, 2018 by Christina Doria 4 Mins Read

British Columbia is now the second Canadian province to modernize its international arbitration legislation by adopting the 2006 amendments to the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (“Model Law”). On May 17, 2018 British Columbia amended its International Commercial Arbitration Act, RBC 1996, c.233 (“ICAA”) via the International Commercial Arbitration Amendment Act. As we reported last year, Ontario updated its International Commercial Arbitration Act in March 2017 (cf. GAN: Ontario introduces new international arbitration…

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Draft Model BIT abandons Party-Appointed Arbitrators

June 19, 2018 by 7 Mins Read

On 16 May 2018, Global Arbitration Review published a report on the Netherlands newly published draft model BIT.…

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The UAE introduces long-awaited stand-alone Arbitration Law: Summary of key provisions

June 6, 2018 by Dr. Habib Al Mulla 7 Mins Read

What has changed? On 3 May 2018, the UAE published its first stand-alone Arbitration Law under Federal Law…

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The Prague Rules – Inquisitorial Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration

May 23, 2018 by Dr. Markus Altenkirch and Malika Boussihmad 7 Mins Read

“Creeping Americanization of international arbitration: is it the right time to develop inquisitorial rules of evidence?”[1] A session of the fourth Russian Arbitration Association Conference in April 2017 stood under this title. Arbitration practitioners emphasized the need of an alternative set of rules on the taking of evidence.[2] A year later, on 8 April 2018, a draft of the “Inquisitorial Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration”, the so-called “Prague Rules”, was released.[3]…

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France: Terms of reference – a key document to which the parties to an arbitration procedure must pay particular attention

May 17, 2018 by Eric Borysewicz and Karim Boulmelh 2 Mins Read

In a decision dated 15 June 2017, the French Cour de cassation held that an acknowledgment of the…

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Discovery. Ninth Circuit holds that the Federal Arbitration Act does not grant arbitrators the power to compel the production of documents from third parties outside of a hearing.

May 3, 2018 by Teisha C. Johnson 3 Mins Read

Vividus LLC v. Express Scripts, Inc., No. 16-16187 (9th Cir. Dec. 21, 2017) [click for opinion] Petitioners-Appellants Vividus,…

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Modernization of the Swedish Arbitration Act in progress

May 2, 2018 by 4 Mins Read

Approaching its twentieth anniversary, the modernization of the Swedish Arbitration Act (“SAA”) is closer than ever. Although the general perception is that the SAA is effective, the long-prepared reform aims to make it even more responsive to the needs of its users. The development of the reform to date The first steps towards modernizing the SAA were taken in February 2014, when the Swedish Government appointed a parliamentary committee to review the SAA, identify any…

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