The Arbitration Act 2025 has become law in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The new Act is largely based on the recommendations made in the Law Commission’s Final Report, published following a public consultation seeking...more
2/25/2025
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Welcome to the results of our International Arbitration Survey 2024. The topic for this year’s survey is Corruption and the challenges that it poses for arbitration....more
The UK Supreme Court decision in UniCredit Bank v RusChemAlliance has confirmed that the English court has jurisdiction to grant an anti-suit injunction (ASI) to restrain foreign court proceedings brought in breach of a Paris...more
10/9/2024
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Welcome to the results of our Arbitration Survey 2023 on the use of Artificial Intelligence in International Arbitration.
In keeping with this year’s survey topic, we asked a generative AI tool to compose an introductory...more
The Law Commission of England and Wales has concluded its review of the Arbitration Act 1996.
In our International Arbitration Survey 2022, we canvased views on the potential areas for reform of the Act....more
9/7/2023
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Cost and delay remain the two areas of greatest concern to parties in arbitration. A particular source of frustration is that it can sometimes take many months for arbitrators to deliberate and issue an award. As a result, we...more
This year our survey topic is the reform of the Arbitration Act 1996.
On 30 November 2021, the Law Commission announced that it would be conducting a review of the Arbitration Act 1996. We decided to use this year’s...more
The recent Commercial Court decision in Tenke Fungurume Mining S.A. v Katanga Contracting Services S.A.S. highlights the very broad discretion that arbitrators have when it comes to making decisions concerning the conduct of...more
The UK Supreme Court has released its much-anticipated decision in the Deepwater Horizon case between Halliburton v Chubb. The appeal concerns the arbitrator’s duty of impartiality, the duty to give disclosure of other...more
It’s midnight and you’re in the final stages of negotiation in a complex international transaction. It’s probably a safe bet that the one thing that is not keeping you awake is a concern over what law governs the arbitration...more
The LCIA has released an update to the LCIA Arbitration Rules. The new rules will apply to arbitrations commenced on or after 1 October 2020, unless parties have expressly agreed that an earlier version of the LCIA Rules...more
It’s midnight and you’re in the final stages of negotiation in a complex international transaction. It’s probably a safe bet that the last thing on your mind is dispute resolution and whether the arbitration clauses in the...more