The 9th Baltic Arbitration Days will be held in Riga, Latvia at the Dzintari Concert Hall in Jurmala and the Riga World Trading Center. The two day event is sponsored by Klauberg Baltics and will take place on 16 and 17 August 2020, with a pre-conference get-together at the Jurmala Beach Resort on 15 August 2020. Due to COVID-19 and related travel constraints, this year’s conference will take place both onsite as well as online.…
In May 2018, Spain requested the set-aside of an arbitral award in front of the Swedish Svea Court…
The International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”) recently published its full statistical report for the year 2019,[1] which revealed…
Paris Court of Appeal, 25 February 2020, No 19/1507575; 19/15816; 19/15817; 1915818; 15/819 The International commercial chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, created in February 2018, has recently issued a decision on the everlasting topic of arbitrators’ independence and impartiality. The dispute arose between three Brazilian companies, members of a consortium operating on an offshore oil development project in Brazil: Dommo Energia S.A. (“Dommo” or “Claimant”), Barra Energia do Brasil Petróleo e Gás Ltda.…
On 19 June 2020, a new Russian Law (Federal Law No. 171-FZ dated 8 June 2020, known as…
German law strictly protects the secrecy of the deliberations of a court and therefore does not allow the…
The Carpatsky[1] case is interesting for a number of reasons as it: The case demonstrates that parties seeking to contest enforcement of an award are presented with what some commentators have called a ‘double-edged sword’. On the one hand, if they bring all their arguments before the curial court and lose, an issue estoppel may arise which prevents them from relying on the same points before the English court at the enforcement stage. On the…
In 2017, the Swiss Government released a draft bill aiming at a reform of the Swiss international arbitration…
In Xstrata Coal v Benxi Iron & Steel ([2020] EWHC 324 (Comm))[1], the English High Court permitted a…
The role of the courts in the development of arbitration proceedings is undeniably crucial. The 15th Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation, with its decision dated September 26, 2019, under file No. 2019/2474, and decision No. 2019/3640, reversed the annulment of an arbitral award decision given by the Regional Court of Appeals (“Regional Court”) in the capacity of a first instance court. In its reasoning, the Court of Cassation concluded that the failure to conduct…