Topic: Due process

A Syrian-French national who was convicted for his role in Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal has lost a US$750 million ICSID claim against Kuwait over court actions targeting his publishing business, despite the tribunal finding due process violations in some of the legal proceedings against him. 

18 March 2025

A Russian court has refused to enforce a Stockholm Chamber of Commerce award against a local railcar maker, citing the “legal aggression” of international sanctions against Russia as well as the nationalities of certain arbitrators on the tribunal. 

22 August 2024

A Singapore court has upheld an award relating to the sale of a container vessel despite finding the challenging party was justifiably aggrieved at the award’s “lack of quality”.

21 August 2024

A Canadian court has refused to enforce a US$90 million award rendered in Shenzhen against a golf club impresario and his wife after finding they were not given proper notice of the arbitration during the covid-19 pandemic.

14 April 2023

A Cyprus-registered oil trader has won US$47.6 million in an Energy Charter Treaty claim over Poland’s refusal to comply with decisions by its own courts ordering the state to pay interest on a repaid fine.

07 March 2023

The final hearing of a US$32 billion case against Iran's state-run oil company has been postponed less two than two weeks before it was due to begin, after Wolfgang Peter and his team at Peter & Kim resigned over an alleged due process failure and co-counsel from Eversheds Sutherland followed suit.

06 March 2023

Former ICC Court president Alexis Mourre used a keynote speech at GAR Live Abu Dhabi to call for a single, universal standard for arbitrator disclosure based on objective and subjective perspectives.

20 February 2023

UPDATED: A Singapore court has upheld a SIAC award favouring Malaysia’s state-owned telecoms company in a US$35 million dispute with a provider of set-top boxes for internet protocol television, finding no evidence the arbitrator failed to keep an open mind.

07 February 2023

A Singapore court has upheld a pair of SIAC awards that found Repsol liable for fraud in a US$5 billion dispute with China’s Sinopec, while refusing to disqualify the presiding arbitrator over his role on a Chinese court-appointed expert panel.

02 February 2023

A Dutch court has ruled that the dean of the Hague Bar was wrong to refuse to appoint replacement legal representation for Russia in various set-aside proceedings after the state’s original counsel resigned following the outbreak of war in Ukraine. 

21 September 2022