Two U.S.-based arbitral institutions and two international institutions recently released global caseload data from 2023. The American Arbitration Association–International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) experienced...more
In June 2024, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) released its preliminary statistics report for 2023 for their arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services. The numbers show an increase in cases as...more
On 31 May 2024, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) released its Annual Casework Report for the year 2023 (Report). The Report provides an interesting insight into LCIA’s caseload over the past year, showing...more
Wash-out. A term synonymous with the Great British summer. But also, it seems, for the heralded Arbitration Bill, which was a glaring omission from the legislation considered by Parliament in the frantic few days before its...more
International arbitration statistics are back in season. In the first couple of months of 2024, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement...more
The recent RusChemAlliance LLC cases in the English High Court considered the practical impact of EU sanctions on Russian entities and the interaction between English and French jurisprudence in international arbitration. The...more
In a recent decision, the Court of Appeal refused an application for permission to appeal a decision of the High Court concerning section 70(7) of the Arbitration Act 1996 (Act). This section states that the court has...more
The Law Commission of England and Wales has completed its long-awaited review of the Arbitration Act 1996. On 6 September it published its final report that set out its recommendations on how the regime governing arbitration...more
In Eternity Sky Investments Ltd v Mrs Xiaomin Zhang [2023] EWHC 1964 (Comm), the English Commercial Court refused to set aside an order for the enforcement of an arbitration award made in Hong Kong. The court rejected the...more
In Payward Inc, Payward Ventures Inc and Payward Ltd v Chechetkin [2023] EWHC 1780 (Comm), the English Commercial Court refused to enforce a California-seated arbitration award, on the basis that enforcement would contravene...more
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Last week, during its 56th annual commission session in Vienna, the United Nations Committee on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted several legal texts to reform ISDS procedures. As the principal legal...more
On 26 May 2023, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) released its Annual Casework Report for the year 2022 (Report). The Report provides some insight into the LCIA’s work over the past year and reveals a solid...more
In autumn last year, the Law Commission of England and Wales published its review of the U.K. Arbitration Act 1996 (the First Paper). We outlined some of the Law Commission’s proposals in the First Paper in our update from...more
In this continuation of updates on international arbitration trends in 2022, several additional arbitral institutions have published their annual reports, confirming a busy recovery year in the international arbitration...more
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The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) has recently released their statistics for 2022, providing an interesting glimpse into the state of international arbitration in Hong Kong....more
The Arbitration Act 1996 came into force on 31 January 1997. Twenty-five years later it is still the gold-standard legal framework for arbitration.
On 22 September 2022, the Law Commission of England and Wales published...more
The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry launched the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation (LCAM) in May 2020. This was a relaunch of the chamber of commerce’s original London Chamber of Arbitration, founded in...more
On 17 May 2021, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) released its 2020 Annual Casework Report, which provides an insight into the LCIA’s caseload in 2020, and the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on its...more
On 1 October 2020, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) implemented its newly promulgated and updated rules, seeking to improve and expedite its international commercial arbitration proceedings....more
A recent Court of Appeal case has clarified the circumstances in which the English Courts have the power to assist arbitrations in other jurisdictions in obtaining evidence from a non-party witness.
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In the recent football case of Bony v Kacou & Ors [2017 EWHC 2146 (Ch)], the High Court was asked to consider whether an arbitration agreement would be implied into a contract.
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The Football...more
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has responded to in-house counsel and private practice’s concerns that international arbitration has become slower, more costly and opaque with the publication of its updated...more
The English Commercial Court (the Court) has ruled that it does not have the power to make an order for preservation and disclosure of evidence against a non-party to an arbitration agreement. Accordingly, it cannot grant...more
2016 will be recorded in history as a year of great political change. But the commercial consequences of such transformation (good or bad) will be felt this year, including the effects of: the inauguration of Mr Trump as...more
Despite the uncertainty following the British referendum on 23 June 2016, when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, one area is not expected to change and in all likelihood will flourish. London has long been...more