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In Arbitrability

Arbitrability: The Limits of Arbitration – guest lecture at Queen Mary University of London’s School of International Arbitration on 7 April 2016

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Arbitrability: The Limits of Arbitration on 7 April 2016, 12.00-2.00pm Venue: CCLS, room 3.1, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2a 3JB QMUL’s School of International Arbitration is pleased to present a guest lecture by Leng Sun Chan SC, Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow (Singapore), discussing “Arbitrability: The Limits of Arbitration”. The foundation of arbitration lies in the agreement of parties to arbitrate. Party autonomy is often invoked as a guiding principle. Nonetheless, there are instances where…

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In Arbitration Procedure

Multi-Party Arbitrations – A Practical Guide

by and 8 Mins Read

Nowadays high value M&A transactions and project structures can be very complex, in particular involving a number of parties based in different jurisdictions who between them enter into a variety of related contracts. To save time and money, parties can seek to resolve all the issues in dispute in the same set of legal proceedings, rather than in many different, but related, proceedings. This has traditionally been done relatively easily in court proceedings. However it…

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In Arbitration Procedure

England: Interaction between an application for interim injunction and a cross-application for stay of proceedings

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In Jacobs E&C Limited v Laker Vent Engineering Ltd [2015] EWHC 4818 (TCC) the English High Court considered the interaction between an application for an interim injunction and a cross-application for a stay of those proceedings under the Arbitration Act 1996 (the “Act”). Dismissing both applications, the Court considered each application separately and held that it is not required to consider the applications jointly when deciding on their merits. In his obiter remarks, Ramsey J…

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In England and Wales

TTIPping the balance: The Crusade against Investor-State Arbitration

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If recent speculation is to be believed, the EU and US are sleep-walking into a scenario where they surrender their regulatory sovereignty to a conclave of self-interested and corrupt lawyers, intent on imposing their will though a collection of “rigged pseudo-courts”. This, so the story goes, will inevitably lead to the destruction of the UK’s sacred National Health Service (NHS), an environmental “free-for-all” and a “race to the bottom” for regulatory standards. In many ways,…

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