In a landmark decision in Enka Insaat Ve Sanayi AS v OOO “Insurance Company Chubb” & Ors [2020] UKSC 38, the U.K. Supreme Court clarified the applicable principles for determining governing laws of an arbitration agreement in the absence of the parties’ express choice. The court upheld the appeal staying parallel court proceedings in Russia […]
In the recent case of PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov & Ors [2020] EWHC 2437 (Comm) the English Commercial Court held that legal advice privilege applies to communications between clients and their in-house lawyers in foreign jurisdictions regardless of the status of the lawyer in that jurisdiction. The dispute arose out of a Ukrainian oil refinery’s […]
Арбитражная Ассоциация подготовила план на декабрь: 3 онлайн конференции, Церемония награждения RAA Awards 2020 и презентация первой Арбитражной Кулинарной Книги по итогам 1 сезона онлайн-шоу АрбитРААжная Кухня. 1-3 декабря Ежегодная Конференция IBA “Слияния и поглощения в России и СНГ”, которая проводится уже 12 лет, впервые пройдет онлайн. Мероприятие соберет практиков со всего мира, чтобы обсудить […]
On December 9, within the framework of the international conference “New Horizons of Private Law“, a roundtable “Settlement of commercial disputes: what is new in legal regulation and practice” will take place online. The organizer is the Department of Civil and Commercial Procedure of MGIMO (Odintsovo branch). CIS Arbitration Forum is the information partner of […]
On July 30, 2020, an arbitral tribunal chaired by Albert Jan van den Berg, with David Williams and Gabriel Bottini as co-arbitrators, has rendered a unanimous award dismissing claims of a Canadian company, Gold Pool JV Ltd., against the Republic of Kazakhstan in international arbitration proceedings. In its decision, the Tribunal held that Kazakhstan was […]
Conflict of interest is both a hot and painful topic for the arbitration world. Many arbitral awards have been nixed and many proceedings have stumbled at the very start because of an arbitrator’s lack of impartiality. The amount of soft law (as well as case law) related to conflict of interest grows steadily, and it […]
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