Organisation: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, or Ciarb, has published guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in arbitration – the latest effort to provide practical guidance on ethical use of the technology.

16 April 2025

Construction and energy disputes lawyer Eugenie Rogers has left Baker McKenzie after almost 13 years to join the partnership at Reed Smith in Dallas.

26 March 2025

A panel at GAR Live Sydney discussed the evolution of international arbitration in the mining sector, including the impact of the energy transition, ESG issues and the delicate balance involved in treaty cases.    

03 December 2024

In the latest Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Alexander Lecture, ICC Court president Claudia Salomon discussed how arbitral institutions should not just administer cases but protect the integrity of the arbitral process, fairly control participation and access to justice and help parties navigate their way though the process.

13 November 2024

Fatima Malik has left Fietta in London and, aged just 33, taken up a role as senior consultant in the international disputes unit of the Office of the Attorney General in Pakistan, the first woman and the youngest person ever hired for that role.

30 October 2024

In this year's Roebuck Lecture, Emilia Onyema discussed the "cost of corruption" for local communities and how to provide them with access to arbitration and national courts, with a focus on the infamous case P&ID v Nigeria, which was of particular concern to her as a Nigerian. 

04 October 2024

Shinsuke Yakura has left Orrick to launch White & Case’s dispute resolution practice in Tokyo – while experienced arbitrator Yoshihiro Takatori has joined Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. 

03 September 2024

The UK’s new Labour government will not address issues of corruption in reforms to the country’s arbitration legislation despite the high-profile P&ID v Nigeria case – and has postponed reforms on litigation funding agreements until at least summer 2025. 

22 August 2024

David Brynmor Thomas KC is to leave 39 Essex after 13 years to become a full time arbitrator and mediator, with his practice managed by Newmans Row, the new London-based outfit set up by Sir Bernard Eder and former Essex Court Chambers clerk Rachel Newman. 

16 August 2024

A tribunal is set to rule on a Spanish energy company’s under-the-radar claim against a Kenyan state-owned utility over a programme to provide electricity to impoverished areas of the country.

18 July 2024