Topic: Arbitrator challenges

Spain has failed to unseat Colombian arbitrator Eduardo Zuleta from one of the numerous Energy Charter Treaty cases it faces, after his co-panellists ruled his chairing of another tribunal which ruled against the state does not mean he prejudged issues.

13 September 2018

Australian arbitrator Zachary Douglas QC has resigned from an UNCITRAL tribunal hearing a treaty claim filed by a family of banking investors against Colombia, before a challenge over his views on most-favoured nation clauses could be decided.

28 August 2018

Bulgarian arbitrator Stanimir Alexandrov has survived an attempt by Croatia to disqualify him from hearing an ICSID claim by an Austrian bank, after one of his co-panellists recused himself from deciding the challenge.

31 May 2018

German arbitrator Rolf Knieper has been disqualified from hearing a US energy company’s ICSID claim against Kazakhstan because of his relationship with members of the country’s judiciary whose rulings are at issue in the case.

08 May 2018

UPDATED. Brigitte Stern has survived an attempt to disqualify her from hearing an ICSID case against Croatia over a controversial project to build a golf resort overlooking Dubrovnik, on the grounds of her past appointments by the state.

25 April 2018

Guatemalan arbitrator Álvaro Castellanos Howell has survived three challenges made to his presence on ICSID annulment committees by Venezuela because of his alleged criticism of the state’s judicial system, as another embattled ICSID arbitrator, Stanimir Alexandrov, faces a new challenge.

12 March 2018

The English High Court has ruled that an arbitrator who was due to hear a reinsurance dispute over damage to the Port of New York in the World Trade Centre attack on 11 September 2001 does not have relevant experience and should be removed from the case.

10 November 2017

Two ICSID arbitrators have declared themselves "equally divided" on a challenge by Spain to their co-arbitrator, Stanimir Alexandrov - based on his 15 year relationship with the Brattle Group and ongoing use of the expert testimony firm in two cases in which he is counsel.

24 October 2017

An arbitrator who was disqualified from a €3 billion insurance dispute after being accused of taking a bribe has lost an appeal against his recusal before Italy's highest court - as he faces a new lawsuit from the party that made the allegation.

15 September 2017

Bulgarian arbitrator Stanimir Alexandrov has survived an attempt by Pakistan to unseat him from an ICSID tribunal because of its reliance on a supposedly "rare" valuation method that he has also invoked in another case in which he is acting as counsel.

08 September 2017