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Remote arbitration hearings

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Christopher Wilsher

Video links have, of course, been used in international arbitration hearings for many years, for instance, to take the evidence of witnesses or experts. The Covid pandemic has brought about a major change in that many arbitration hearings are either …

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English Court confirms it has no jurisdiction to permit a counterclaim in enforcement proceedings

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Molly Jones

In Selevision Saudi Co v BeIN Media Group LLC [2021] EWHC 2802 (Comm), the High Court held that it had no jurisdiction to permit a counterclaim in proceedings to enforce a New York Convention award pursuant to section 101(2) of …

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Uk Supreme Court Rules On Apparent Bias Of Arbitrators

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Alice Heathfield

Background The case arose from the 2010 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and subsequent oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, in which 11 offshore workers died. Thousands of civil claims were brought against oil giant BP, the …

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New LCIA Arbitration Rules: In force on 1 October 2020

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Alice Heathfield

(1) Case Management Powers Enabling Expedition The 2014 version of the LCIA Arbitration Rules made clear that the tribunal has “the widest discretion to discharge [its] general duties” and that “the Arbitral Tribunal may, subject to the LCIA Rules, make …

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The 2019 LCIA Casework Report: Record Number of New Cases

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Alice Heathfield

On 19 May 2020, the London Court of International Arbitration (“the LCIA”) released its Annual Casework Report for 2019 (“the Report”) revealing that it received the greatest ever number of international arbitrations in 2019. Of note, the statistics reveal that …

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