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…
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (“SCC”) was founded in 1917. It is part of…
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (‘CETA’) between the European Union and Canada was signed October 30, 2016.…
While toasting the New Year over a glass or two of champagne, it may have gone unnoticed to many of us that the strike of midnight also marked a more momentous event: the coming into force of two new sets of arbitration rules. On 1 January 2017, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (“SCC”) Arbitration Rules 2017 (the “SCC Rules “)[1] and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) Investment Arbitration Rules 2017 (the “SIAC IA Rules”)[2]…
In its report “Costs of arbitration and apportionment of costs under the SCC Rules” of February 2016[1], the…
In its judgment of 18 January 2016[1], the Svea Court of Appeal overturned the Stockholm District Court’s judgment…
In its judgment dated 25 June 2015, the Svea Court of Appeal annulled a Stockholm Chamber of Commerce award in its entirety on the grounds that the tribunal exceeded its mandate. The Svea Court of Appeal introduces the concept that where the tribunal has exceeded its mandate, and it is unclear which part of the award the excess of mandate affects, the award shall be annulled in its entirety. Previously, this concept has only been…
In a highly anticipated decision (Gazprom C-536/13) the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) has clarified that anti-suit…
In February 2014, a parliamentary committee was appointed by the Swedish Government to review and modernize the Swedish…
A conference organized by three institutions, namely the Arbitration and Mediation of the American Chamber of Commerce in Brazil (Amcham Brazil), the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Brazil (Swedcham Brazil) and the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) discussed international trade and the Swedish and Brazilian experience in arbitration and mediation. The mild São Paulo autumn was a conciliating environment for Brazilian and Swedish corporate lawyers and counsel to exchange their almost…