The ICC committed itself to make arbitration proceedings more efficient and transparent. To reach this objective, the institution has introduced several new policies in previous years. In 2016, the ICC began to publish arbitrators’ details on its website (see GAN: New Year, New Policies: ICC to bolster arbitrator efficiency and transparency in arbitrations and GAN: ICC publishes arbitrator’s details – A new level of transparency). 2019 begins with a further attempt to bolster efficiency and…
Governments around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the competition that exists for international disputes work, between…
A new generation of legal analysis tools is emerging. All of them rely on innovative use of data,…
The never-ending clash between the Civil Law and Common Law traditions in international arbitration took center-stage once again in 2018, with the introduction of the Inquisitorial Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration, or the “Prague Rules”. Lawyers from the Civil Law tradition, increasingly dissatisfied with the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration, introduced the Prague Rules as an alternative to the “adversarial approach” embodied in the IBA Rules.…
On November 6, 2018, the Argentine National Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) ruled on a case regarding the annulment…
On 1 November 2018, the revised HKIAC Arbitration Rules entered into force (see GAN: New HKIAC Administered Arbitration…
The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) has announced that the new version of its Administered Arbitration Rules (2018 Rules) will come into force on 1 November 2018. The 2018 Rules can be found here. The 2018 Rules introduce a raft of important and useful amendments including rules facilitating complex arbitrations, a procedure for an early determination of points of law or fact, shorter time limits under the emergency arbitrator procedures, third party funding provisions,…
On September 30, 2018, the United States, Mexico and Canada (the Parties) reached an agreement to replace the…
Recent Development On December 5, 2017, the Fédération Internationale des Ingénieurs-Conseils (FIDIC) launched the second edition of the…
On July 26, 2018 Law No. 27,449 on International Commercial Arbitration (“LACI” for its Spanish acronym), was published in the Official Gazette. Said law had been passed by Congress on July 4, 2018 and signed into law by the Executive on July 25, 2018. The LACI, which is based on the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL Law”), introduced some changes regarding the Arbitration Contract…