The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the Court has jurisdiction to compel the evidence of third party witnesses in arbitration proceedings under s. 44(2)(a) of the Arbitration Act 1996. However, the Court’s jurisdiction against third parties in respect of other powers under s. 44 remains an open question for future judicial development. Introduction England and Wales has long been known as an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction. That reputation is in part founded upon the tools available…
In The Republic of Korea v Mohammed Reza Dayyani and others [2019] EWHC 3580 (Comm), the English High…
At the beginning of 2020, it became known that the Polish airline company LOT decided to purchase its…
On December 12, 2019, the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration (“the Rules on Human Rights Arbitration”) were launched at the Peace Palace in The Hague. The Rules on Human Rights Arbitration provide for the administration of arbitrations concerning disputes related to the impact of business activities on human rights. The Rules on Human Rights Arbitration are based on the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules (as adopted in 2013) with modifications needed to address issues…
As the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world, businesses are facing significant levels of…
In 2017, the Swiss Government released a draft bill aiming at a reform of the Swiss international arbitration…
We are pleased to announce that the latest edition of the Baker McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook is now available. This year, in recognition of both our clients’ preferences for soft copy material and our commitment to sustainability, the Yearbook is being published electronically via our Global Arbitration News blog, rather than in hard copy. This new edition reviews important developments in arbitration over the past year across 43 jurisdictions, including: The increasing use of artificial…
In its decision dated 6 January 2020, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (SFSC) decided that an arbitration clause…
In its decision dated 24 September 2019, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (“SFSC”) held that a State is only…
The Istanbul Arbitration Centre (“ISTAC“), one of Turkey’s leading arbitration institutions, introduced the ISTAC Mediation-Arbitration Rules (“Rules“) regarding alternative dispute resolution on 15 November 2019 after introducing the Arbitration and Mediation Rules on 26 October 2015. The mediation-arbitration model, known as Med-Arb, is an alternative dispute resolution method where parties attempt to resolve a dispute through mediation, and if mediation fails, the parties resort to arbitration According to the Rules, parties can conclude a Med-Arb…