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"A thousand yearnings": Do India's reforms go far enough?
March 20, 2020
At GAR Live India in Delhi, a panel considered the country's recent arbitration reforms and whether they represent a missed opportunity. Haaris Fazili of DMD Advocates reports. Moderator Rajendra Barot of AZB & Partners opened the discussion of the arbitration reforms in India with a quotation from the famous Urdu and Persian poet of the Mughal Empire, Mirza Ghalib: I have a thousand yearnings, each one afflicts me so.Many were fulfilled for sure, not enough although. Vyapak Desai of Nishith...
GAR Live India - in pictures
March 09, 2020
The second GAR Live India took place at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Delhi on 29 February. Photos of the event are now available. It was sponsored by Reed Smith, Khaitan & Co, AZB & Co, Aarna Law, Burford Capital, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Kachwaha & Partners, Lex Arbitri, Nishith Desai Associates, Norton Rose Fulbright, White & Case, ZBA, and Masin....
GAR Live Abu Dhabi - in pictures
February 03, 2020
Photos from the latest GAR Live Abu Dhabi can be found here. The 5th annual GAR Live Abu Dhabi took place at the Abu Dhabi Global Market Building on 28 January. The event was co-chaired by Lara Hammoud and Alec Emmerson, an independent arbitrator based in Dubai. Ashurst was an associate sponsor of the event while the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration and the Emirates Maritime Arbitration Centre were supporting organisations. A drinks reception was hosted by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Sherman & Sterling hosted a speakers' dinner....
Has the game changed for China-related arbitration?
January 23, 2020
At an event in Singapore, a panel of practitioners considered whether recent legal developments in Asia constitute a turning point for arbitration involving China. Charles Tian of WongPartnership in Singapore reports. Koh Swee Yen of WongPartnership opened the event by noting that there have been exciting developments for Asia and China-related arbitration, including China's efforts to modernise its arbitration regime, new arrangements regarding interim measures between mainland China and Hong Kong,...
PCA hosts launch of Hague Rules for business and human rights disputes
January 20, 2020
An event at the Permanent Court of Arbitration marked the launch of the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration. Fabio Santacroce and Caterina Benini of ArbLit in Milan report. On 12 December, the PCA hosted a symposium at the Peace Palace in The Hague for the launch of the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration. The Hague Rules are the result of a five-year long project by a team of academics, practitioners and other stakeholders, chaired by Bruno Simma, a judge at the...
GAR Live Singapore - in pictures
December 17, 2019
Pictures of the 5th annual GAR Live Singapore can be found here. GAR Live Singapore was held at Maxwell Chambers on 27 August and was co-chaired by Wade Coriell of King & Spalding and Chiann Bao of Arbitration Chambers. Conference supporters were Profile Investment, Debevoise & Plimpton, Morrison & Foerster and Reed Smith. Supporting organisations were the International Chamber of Commerce, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration. A drinks reception was hosted by Blackrock Expert Services and the speakers' dinner was hosted by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer....
Douglas warns against "siege mentality"
December 16, 2019
In a keynote speech in Prague, Australian arbitrator Zachary Douglas QC of Matrix Chambers argued that although investment arbitration is under constant attack, the arbitration community should not focus on external threats to the system but rather deal with the serious problems of its own making. Jaroslav Kudrna and Anna Bilanová of the Czech Ministry of Finance report. Entitling his speech "The perils of a siege mentality," Douglas remarked that arbitrators and counsel are generally not...
How can women secure leading roles?
December 06, 2019
At the inaugural GAR Live Women in Arbitration, panellists discussed what steps women can take to secure lead counsel and arbitrator roles. Yesterday during a session at Butchers' Hall in London, moderator Rena Scott of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe sought the panel members' advice on building a reputation in the field - looking at key factors for success, how to develop advocacy skills, maintaining a work-life balance and smarter networking. Building a practice Scott asked the panel, composed of...
GAR Live Women in Arbitration - in pictures
December 06, 2019
GAR Live Women in Arbitration took place at Butchers' Hall in London on 5 December. The event was co-chaired by Sylvia Noury, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Annette Magnusson, Secretary General of the SCC Arbitration Institute. It was supported by 3 Verulam Bulidings, Allen & Overy, AlixPartners and Bentham IMF, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Squire Patton Boggs and Betto Perben Pradel Filhol. The refreshments break was sponsored by White & Case. The GAR Live Women in Arbitration conference exhibitor was JAMS and King & Spalding were the associate sponsor. Supporting organisations were Arbitral Women, ERA and the New York International Arbitration Centre....
The pendulum has swung back
December 06, 2019
In the latest Freshfields lecture, French arbitrator Brigitte Stern has warned that the pendulum has swung back from international dispute resolution to state sovereignty - posing an existential threat to investor-state dispute settlement as we know it. Stern, a professor of international law and one of the world's most prolific arbitrators, said that states have reacted to increasing globalisation by clawing back the sovereignty that they diluted to create an international dispute resolution mechanism...
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