Premium article - June 07, 2019
Queen Mary University of London has launched its ninth annual international arbitration survey, which will focus on construction disputes. Launched on 31 May, the survey is available here and is open until 26 July. London-based firm Pinsent Masons is collaborating with Queen Mary on the project, as it did with a previous survey in 2016. In other years, the university has partnered with White & Case and PwC. The team at the Queen Mary School of International Arbitration conducting the research is...
May 16, 2019
Dubai, Stockholm and São Paulo have so far attracted least response in GAR's Seat Index, survey but Cairo and Kuala Lumpur are not far behind. Only Vienna has generated enough data to go forward to the next stage. Fortunately ... ... there's still a week to go, and it's easy to take part. In April GAR called for assistance to evaluate six new seats - Cairo, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, São Paulo, Stockholm and Vienna - for the GAR-CIArb Seat Index. Readers were asked to use an online form to tell us how...
Premium article - April 05, 2019
Readers are invited to help GAR evaluate six new seats - Cairo, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, São Paulo, Stockholm and Vienna - for the GAR-CIArb Seat Index. Tell us how they measure up to the CIArb London Principles - and the six seats it already contains: Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Singapore and Geneva and Zurich Last November, GAR and a team from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators published the first set of seats in our Seat Index. The Index provides handy one-page summaries of the favourableness...
Premium article - December 14, 2017
Four years after GAR published his first study of damages and costs in investment treaty arbitration, Allen & Overy partner Matthew Hodgson has produced a second edition, this time with associate Alastair Campbell. The study shows tribunal approaches have become more predictable and rigorous but that party costs and damages claimed are also on the rise. Since the end of 2012, when this study was first conducted, the use of investment treaty arbitration has continued to grow. In 2015 and 2016,...
October 18, 2017
Time is running out to have your say on who gets an AAA, AA, or A rating in the GAR-CIArb index of seats. Tell us who deserves an AAA, AA, or A rating! As revealed earlier this month, GAR and the CIArb are collaborating on a new index of seats. The index will use the "AAA, AA, A …" system pioneered by credit rating agencies, and the CIArb's "London principles" as the underlying yardstick. The GAR-CIArb seat index will appear every year. To take part, visit our online...
October 04, 2017
Readers are invited to help with an ‘index' of seats, to be published next year. Have your say on who gets an AAA, AA, or A rating! Next year, GAR and CIArb will publish an index of seats, using the "AAA, AA, A …" system pioneered by credit rating agencies. The GAR-CIArb seat index will then appear every year. The idea grew from the CIArb's "London principles". Created in 2016 by the CIArb as part of its 100 year celebrations, these distil the essence of a ‘safe' international arbitration...
Premium article - April 10, 2017
In an effort to respond to the needs of companies using international arbitration, arbitral institutions are accommodating an increased wish by parties for expedited proceedings and sole member tribunals and are appointing women arbitrators with greater frequency, says research from White and Case - but improvements are still needed on time and cost. The research is mainly based on data released by institutions in 2015 and draws a comparison between leading arbitral institutions even though...
Premium article - January 09, 2017
In a survey by Berwin Leighton Paisner, 56% of participants said they consider diversity when drawing up shortlists of potential candidates for appointment as arbitrators but over 80% still thought there are too many white, male arbitrators and over 60% that there are too many from Western Europe or North America. Of 122 participants in the survey from various regions of the world - including arbitrators, corporate counsel, external lawyers, users of arbitration and representatives of institutions...
Premium article - November 21, 2016
UPDATED. The latest Queen survey - conducted with law firm Pinsent Masons - shows that technology, media and telecoms parties tend to litigate their disputes but see the potential for international arbitration, especially with specialised arbitrators. The survey - the seventh conducted by Queen Mary School of International Arbitration since 2006 - is the first to focus on technology disputes and the "largest sector-specific empirical survey" that the university has ever conducted in international...
Premium article - September 22, 2016
A newly-published report examines reception of the IBA soft law instruments relating to international arbitration, finding that the guidelines on conflicts of interest are the most widely used around the world, followed by the rules of evidence and the relatively new guidelines on party representation. The report published yesterday to coincide with the IBA conference in Washington, DC, declares that the rules and guidelines are "well received soft law instruments among members of the international...