Arbitration News from Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, Part II: Foreign Investors Faced With Zimbabwe Diamond Mine Nationalization May Have Legal...
Editor’s Note: This is the second of two articles on recent developments related to expropriations in Zimbabwe. This article deals with new legislation concerning...
Zimbabwe, Part I: A Road Block to the “March of History”?
Editor’s Note: This is the first of two articles on recent developments related to expropriations in Zimbabwe. This article deals with a recently leaked...
Arbitration News from Middle East & Africa
The Year Ahead – Regional Developments: What are the key developments across the regions?
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Final report of government inquiry into banking and financial services
A Government inquiry is examining standards and misconduct in the banking and financial...
The Year Ahead – Co-operation: States and their courts are increasing efforts to co-operate...
We are seeing increasing efforts between states and between courts to co-operate over enforcement of judgments. This is long-overdue when compared to efforts for...
ICC – More efficiency and transparency in 2019
The ICC committed itself to make arbitration proceedings more efficient and transparent. To reach this objective, the institution has introduced several new policies in...
The Year Ahead – Competition: Governments are increasingly aware of the competition for international...
Governments around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the competition that exists for international disputes work, between and amongst national courts and arbitral...
The Year Ahead – Innovation: A new generation of legal analysis tools is emerging
A new generation of legal analysis tools is emerging. All of them rely on innovative use of data, and there is increasing use of...
Quo Vadis Party-appointed Experts?
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...
UAE arbitrators need fear no more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recently published a decree intended to end the long controversy around the potential exposure of arbitrators and experts...
New HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules further enhance efficiency of arbitrations
The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) has announced that the new version of its Administered Arbitration Rules (2018 Rules) will come into force...