On 8 November, the SCC announced on its website (click here to view the announcement) that as of 1 January 2018, the SCC Board will provide reasoned decisions on arbitrator challenges unless the parties agree otherwise. While in the past the SCC Board rarely gave reasoned decisions, since 2005 it regularly published reports on arbitrator challenges aiming to make their decisions more predictable. The last report was published in January 2016, summarizing the Board’s decisions…
At the end of October, both, ICC and LCIA, introduced revised practice notes. Aiming to increase efficiency of…
As the NAFTA withdrawal rhetoric heats up, it would be prudent to determine whether your company has any…
Hunt v. Moore Bros., 861 F.3d 655 (7th Cir. 2017) Attorney Jana Yocum Rine represented plaintiff James Hunt in a dispute with his employer, Moore Brothers, concerning the terms of his independent contractor operating agreement, which contained an arbitration clause in which both parties agreed “to submit [] disputes to final and binding arbitration before any arbitrator mutually agreed upon by both parties.” When a dispute arose under the contract, rather than filing an arbitration…
On 1 September, a task force of the ICCA and the Queen Mary School of International Arbitration published…
Recent actions undertaken by the Supreme Court of India could signal a sea change in India’s approach to…
In the recent anonymised judgment of P v Q and others [2017] EWHC 194 (Comm), the England & Wales Commercial Court gave some important guidance on delegation within Tribunals and the appropriate role of a Tribunal Secretary. An appointment as a Tribunal Secretary is often seen as a stepping stone for arbitration practitioners looking for their first arbitral appointment. This judgment will be of interest to current and aspiring Tribunal Secretaries, as well as to…
Two years after its noted decision enforcing an annulled award in the Pemex[1] case, the Second Circuit again…
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued what is being labeled a “brazen” rule[1] on Monday, July…
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