Arbitration in Brazil has developed significantly over recent decades. The latest ICC statistical report for the year 2016 shows an increasing number of Brazilian parties using arbitration, with 123 Brazilian parties compared to 112 in 2014, placing Brazil in 3rd place in party-rankings worldwide. Brazil is today described as having a pro-arbitration legal regime and […]
ENFORCEMENT OF AN ANNULLED ARBITRATION AWARD: SOCIETE PT PUTRABALI ADYAMULIA v. RENA HOLDING French Court of Cassation (2007)
The case Société PT Putrabali Adyamulia v Société Rena Holding et Société Moguntia Est Epices is one of the French landmark cases concerning the enforcement of an arbitral award in France, where the enforcement of an annulled arbitration award is possible. In the case, Putrabali sold a cargo of white pepper to Rena Holding. The […]
Successful Challenge of Arbitration Award before the French Conseil d’Etat
On 9 November 2016, following the challenge of an arbitration award before the French Conseil d’Etat, France’s highest administrative court, the administrative court rendered an interesting new decision on the issue of its power to review an international arbitration award in the context of a public contract. This decision arises out of an ICC award […]
Rectification of ICSID Awards
The rectification of an award under Article 49(2) of the ICSID Convention is a remedy for inadvertent omissions and minor technical errors in an award. It enables the arbitral tribunal to correct mistakes that may have occurred in the award’s drafting in a non-bureaucratic and expeditious manner. Such corrections are provided for in Article 49(2) of the ICSID Convention: […]
New Qatar Arbitration Law
The Qatari Cabinet at a meeting in June 2016 ordered taking necessary measures for the issuance of the draft law on international commercial arbitration in Qatar, after having been briefed on the recommendation of the Advisory Council with respect to the draft law, issued in 2015. Over the past few years, through the widespread ratification of the New […]