Douglas Thomson

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• Arbitral centres merge in Shenzhen
• China reforms reporting system
• EU warns Spain not to pay solar awards
• ICC award set aside in Paris in Russian-Ukrainian dispute
• Naftogaz and Gazprom both declare win in pricing dispute
• Fur trading vessel seizure inspires historic Frankfurt moot
• Double win for Libya at ICC
• New partner at Dechert in DC
• Malaysia’s 1MDB pays out to end LCIA dispute
• Lord Steyn 1932-2017
• Russian investors lose SCC claim against Moldova
• Cheng to be named Hong Kong’s justice secretary
• Kuwait tribunal rejects interim requests from both sides
• Clifford Chance partner fined over role in third-party funded lawsuit
• Black Cube targets Canadian arbitrator in “sting”
• Nissan brings claims against India
• “Turf war” award set aside in Dubai over defective clause
• Caribbean court knocks back Belize’s public policy objection
• SIAC gag order does not violate US constitution, court says
• Alter ego ruling appealed in Oregon
• UK court blocks funding for Turkey claim
• UK considers Iran award payout to free imprisoned charity worker
• ICSID exit bars billion-dollar claim
• Croatia bribery award comes to light
• Hong Kong’s top court won’t hear challenge to award against US insurer
• Thailand faces treaty claim over mining ban
• Yukos shareholders abandon Belgian front
• Tata pays out on billion-dollar LCIA award
• Croatia fails to annul award in bribery case
• Kazakhstan loses final appeal over ECT award
• Domestic workers and cage home dwellers benefit from Hong Kong Ball
• Transparency grows as confidentiality diminishes?
• Sri Lanka faces claim over flooding at parliamentary lake
• Spanish publisher objects to Latin maxim in award
• Yukos shareholders give up on enforcement in France
• Ukrainian gas award confirmed in Texas
• Malaysian partner on hook for failed Mumbai oil venture
• Czech award blocked again in US
• Trinidad natural gas award confirmed in New York
• ISDS v Trump and the EU
• Singapore’s Success
• Award holder jailed in Mongolia
• Daewoo spin-off takes arbitral loss to English court
• New case ignites over Kurdistan gas settlement
• Balkan states face claims in wake of "francogeddon"
• Nokia announces end to royalties case
• Niger denied judicial review in Paris
• McArbitration reaches McAward
• GAR Live New York considers the Trump effect
• HKIAC seeks public comment on rules update

• Oil block investor to bring claim against Gambia
• ECJ to rule on CETA investment court
• Poland defends billion-euro mining claim
• ICSID panel unmoved by earthquake plea
• Tribunal hears billion dollar claim against Vietnam
• Kurdistan settles multibillion-dollar gas dispute
• Shanghai court refuses to enforce SIAC sole arbitrator's award
• Russian bank pursues troubled Croatian food group
• Ecuador's claim for Amazon pollution to continue
• Arrest follows Tanzanian plane seizure
• DIFC judge cuts through Kurdistan sovereignty defence
• DC court approves transfer of interest in Belize award as state appeals to top US court
• St Petersburg win upheld in Stockholm
• Georgia faces another claim over electricity tariffs
• US court hears challenge to SIAC "gag order"
• Lesotho award set aside in Singapore
• An FG Hemisphere for Dubai?
• French judge to appoint president in Pey Casado case at PCA
• Chevron fraud claim must go to London tribunal
• PowerPoint on corruption findings protected by privilege, says ICSID panel
• CPR under-45s group grows again
• A claim, a decision and an award at ICSID
• Cuatrecasas recruits Mexico practice head
• Alexandrov quits Sidley Austin to go solo
• Kurdistan told to pay costs ahead of damages hearing
• Sorry no longer the hardest word in Hong Kong
• Tribunal wraps tortilla makers' treaty claim
• Brexit will not affect arbitration "in any way", Lord Chief Justice says
• ICSID creditor takes award from New York to DC
• Philippines held liable in water tariff case
• Ecuador again fails to annul awards in pollution battle with Chevron
• India’s BIT recast continues
• Argentina and Total settle
• More claims to come in Andean pollution saga?
• UNCITRAL to examine further reforms of ISDS
• Costs of tobacco claim stay under wraps
• Annulled Guinea award blocked again in US
• Mongolia prevails on narrow reading of Chinese treaty
• Hong Kong court appoints receivers to “hold the ring” ahead of CIETAC case
• EU says “ISDS is dead” ahead of Japan trade deal
• Moscow court blocks enforcement against Ukrainian state assets
• Gazprom threatens treaty claim against Ukraine
• Old foes Salini and Morocco settle ICC battle
• Two new ICSID cases with UAE link
• UK Supreme Court allows maritime claim to resume
• Asian M&A dispute goes to ICC in Hong Kong
• Rocket funds released in Yukos battle
• BP and Reliance withdraw claim against India
• Not “sorry”: Justin Bieber returns to arbitration world with libel dispute
• Claim filed over Senegal oil field