Jason Fry, Simon Greenberg, Francesca Mazza THE SECRETARIAT’s GUIDE TO ICC ARBITRATION A Practical Commentary on the 2012 ICC Rules of Arbitration from the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration With the assistance of Benjamin Moss Contents Foreword Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Step-by-Step Overview of ICC Arbitration Procedure Chapter 3: […]
UK Supreme Court Again Considers Anti-Suit Injunctions
UK SUPREME COURT AGAIN CONSIDERS ANTI-SUIT INJUNCTIONS Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC v AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP [2013] UKSC 35 In a decision in Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC v AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP [2013] UKSC 35, handed down on 12 June 2013, the Supreme Court considered whether the English courts had jurisdiction to issue […]
ICC Counterclaims In International Arbitration – The French Cour de Cassation’s Perspective
The Cour de cassation’s (the French supreme court) recent ruling could be positive news for litigants lacking the resources to pay the ICC’s advance on costs. Pirelli (Italy) brought arbitration proceedings against Licensing Projects (Spain) (LP) over a trade mark dispute in 2007. Later that year, a Spanish court placed LP into a formal insolvency […]
2013 Corporate Counsel Survey on Arbitration
PWC’s 2013 corporate counsel survey has some interesting insights concerning the state of arbitration today. It is available here: Corporate Counsel Survey Regarding Arbitration The primary findings include: – Businesses continue to show a preference for using arbitration over litigation for transnational disputes, although concerns remain about the costs of arbitration. – The survey confirms that arbitration is more popular in […]
Recent ICSID Cases Discussed in the Investment Arbitration Reporter
February 28, 2013 (Vol. 6, No. 5) 1. First hearing in Philip Morris v. Australia arbitration is pushed into 2014, as New Zealand reveals it is awaiting outcome of Australian cases 2. Effort fails in bid to disqualify former Argentine official Gabriel Bottini in Saint-Gobain v. Venezuela arbitration 3. Sri Lanka breached BIT due to […]