Inside Arbitration: Issue 21
Marking a decade of Inside Arbitration, this edition brings together the themes shaping today’s international arbitration landscape
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15 March 2013
Myanmar announces intention to sign the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958
On 6 March 2013, Myanmar's parliament approved plans to sign the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958 …
13 March 2013
High Court of Australia dismisses challenge to legislation incorporating the UNCITRAL Model Law
The High Court of Australia this morning dismissed a challenge to legislation incorporating the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial …
06 March 2013
President Hugo Chavez's Legacy: What Future for Investors in Venezuela?
Overnight the Venezuelan government has confirmed the death of President Hugo Chavez after a long battle with cancer. President Chavez had been a …
01 March 2013
High Court applies Sulamérica test in Arsanovia and gives rise to unexpected results
In December last year, the High Court upheld a challenge under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (the Act) in Arsanovia Ltd and others v Cruz City 1 …
01 March 2013
Australia and investor-state-dispute resolution mechanisms in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
In 2011, Australia’s Gillard government announced a new policy not to include investor-state-dispute resolution mechanisms in future investment treaties …
28 February 2013
U&M Mining Zambia Ltd v Konkola Copper Mines plc: Court of the seat does not have exclusive jurisdiction to grant interim measures in support of arbitration
In the recent case of U&M Mining Zambia Ltd v Konkola Copper Mines plc [2013] EWHC 260 (Comm), the court examined the question of whether English …
27 February 2013
US Practitioner Larry Shore returns to Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
We are very pleased to welcome back dual US/UK qualified arbitration specialist Larry Shore to our international arbitration practice. Larry is joining …
26 February 2013
Herbert Smith Freehills acts for JUSTICE in intervention in Supreme Court case
Herbert Smith Freehills acted for JUSTICE, a UK based law reform and human rights organisation, in relation to its intervention in Susan Smith & …
22 February 2013
Recent Singapore High Court decision on arbitration clause controversial in light of 2012 ICC Rules
The Singapore High Court (the Court) considered whether an arbitration clause which stipulated that disputes were to be settled by arbitration under the …
20 February 2013
Ambiente Ufficio S.p.A. and others v Argentine Republic (ICSID Case No ARB/08/9)
In Ambiente Ufficio S.p.A. and others v Argentine Republic, an ICSID tribunal held that it had general jurisdiction over a multi-party claim commenced by …
19 February 2013
Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal refuses leave to appeal in the Grand Pacific v. Pacific China case
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ("CFA") has today refused to interfere with a judgment of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal ("CA") on the setting aside …
14 February 2013
Tribunal navigates the procedural minefield in Abaclat v Argentina, issuing its 17th procedural order
On 8 February 2013, the majority of the tribunal in the famous Abaclat and Others v Argentina case issued its 17th procedural order. The first such order …
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