At the beginning of the year, the ICC announced that as of this year it will publish the ICC- and party-appointed arbitrators’ names and details on its website to bolster transparency in arbitration (see http://www.globalarbitrationnews.com/new-year-new-policies-icc-bolster-arbitrator-efficiency-transparency-arbitrations/). In June 2016, the ICC turned these words into action and released for the first time the arbitrators’ details in a chart on its website.[1] The chart contains sections for the arbitrators’ names, nationalities, roles, their appointment method and their…
Lord Thomas: Rebalancing the relationship between the courts and arbitration Lord Thomas’s Bailii Lecture on 9 March 2016…
Overview Thanks to the Jackson reforms, when a matter is litigated in a UK court, the fees associated…
In a recent Iranian gas contract dispute, the High Court of England and Wales rejected an attempt to set aside an arbitration award on the grounds of alleged corruption and bribery.[i] This judgment is a helpful reminder of how English courts deal with attempts to have awards set aside on this basis. However, the state of the relevant underlying English common law in this area is such that it should be closely watched.Yet another oil…
In its last week’s decision[1], the German Federal Constitutional Court gave green light for the Comprehensive Economic and…
The court’s power to make appointments to an arbitral tribunal and the limitations it faces under the Arbitration…
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In its report “Costs of arbitration and apportionment of costs under the SCC Rules” of February 2016[1], the…
On August 30, 2016, the ABA Section of International Law will hold a teleconference entitled “CAS”: The “Supreme…
This article is about two phenomena which currently impact the business of dispute resolution: The Vanishing Trial and the 30-70 %-Disease. What lies behind those two catch-words and why are both highly relevant for arbitration practitioners? Here is the proposed answer: The Vanishing Trial has been a long established phenomenon in the United States where the number of actually tried cases has been falling sharply for decades. Now, this trend is spotted in Germany as…