There is a panel discussion on Striking a Sustainable Deal: Balancing State Responsibility and Investor Rights in Mining, which will be held on Tuesday, 28 March 2023, from 17:00 to 21:00 Paris time (including a networking cocktail). The discussion will be moderated by Alexandre Vagenheim, VP Global Data & Partnerships of Jus Mundi. The panellists […]
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Document Production in International Arbitration
Document production is one of the most controversial yet essential steps in international arbitration. Since cases are generally decided based on documents rather than oral testimony, document production can be a powerful tool for discovering evidentiary material crucial to winning an arbitration.[1] It is not surprising that arbitral proceedings commonly include a document production phase. […]
Aceris Law Wins Another LCIA Arbitration Under English Law
Aceris Law is pleased to announce that its arbitration lawyers have recently won another London Court of International Arbitration (“LCIA”) arbitration under English law for their client, this time for a Middle Eastern client against a sizeable Thai company. The dispute concerned a large supply contract for commodities governed by English law. Despite numerous attempts to […]
International Arbitration in Cyprus
Cyprus has a familiar law for international arbitrations based on the 1985 UNCITRAL Model Law, courts supportive of arbitration, and it is a party to the New York Convention, thus facilitating the enforcement of Cyprus-seated awards around the world. Regulatory Framework International arbitrations in Cyprus are governed by the International Commercial Arbitration Law (Law No. […]
Arbitration in Switzerland
Switzerland is among the most preferred seats for arbitration, as revealed by an international Survey from 2018.[1] Its attractivity stems from factors such as its political neutrality, the well-established legal framework, the qualified arbitration practitioners, and its efficient institutions. Some key points relevant to the choice of Switzerland as a seat of arbitration will be […]
UNIDROIT Principles and International Commercial Arbitration
Parties to a contract do not tend to agree on the application of the domestic law of the other. They usually choose a “neutral law”, the law of a third country. However, this choice often leads to apparent inconveniences since the chosen law is foreign to both parties. Indeed, understanding its content may require time-consuming […]
Aceris Law Wins Another SIAC Arbitration Under English Law
Aceris Law is pleased to announce that its arbitration lawyers have recently won another Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) arbitration, this time for a Middle Eastern client against an Indian company. The case arose from a sales contract for multiple cargos of an industrial chemical and was governed by English law. Aceris Law replaced prior […]
ICSID Expedited Arbitration
One of the innovative features of the new ICSID Arbitration Rules, in force as of 1 July 2022 (the “2022 ICSID Arbitration Rules”), figures in Chapter XII, which allows parties to opt into ICSID expedited arbitration. The principal purpose of the ICSID expedited procedure is to reduce the length of ICSID arbitration proceedings and, thus, […]
Enforcement of Emergency Arbitration Decisions
Many leading arbitration institutions have adopted rules containing provisions regarding emergency arbitrators. Although the applicability of these types of provisions has been widely discussed, there is still little experience, especially regarding the enforcement of such decisions against a recalcitrant party. What Is Emergency Arbitration? The most widely used definition of emergency arbitration defines it as […]
