Work Area: Enforcement and set-aside

In a first, the Supreme Court of Mauritius has relied on the New York Convention to order an award debtor to post security in the full amount of the award pending set-aside proceedings. 

07 April 2025

Mr Justice Foxton of the English Commercial Court used a speech at the IBA Arbitration Day in London to suggest ways the arbitration community and the courts can work together to reduce the fragmentation of commercial disputes across courts and arbitral tribunals.  

04 April 2025

The French Court of Cassation has quashed a set-aside decision that had allowed the children of Indian mining tycoon Pramod Agarwal to revive a US$4 billion investment treaty claim against Uruguay.  

03 April 2025

Switzerland’s highest court has rejected two challenges to an ICC award that requires French transport infrastructure group Alstom to pay over €63 million to its Japanese and Turkish partners for terminating a project to upgrade a commuter rail line in Istanbul.

26 March 2025

Singapore is marking the 30th anniversary of its International Arbitration Act by opening a public consultation on potential reforms. 

25 March 2025

The European Commission has declared that an ICSID award ordering Spain to pay €101 million plus interest to investors for changes to renewable energy subsidies constitutes illegal state aid. 

24 March 2025

A Singapore court has rejected South Korea’s bid to set aside a US$43 million investment treaty award won by US hedge fund Mason Capital over the state’s interference in a Samsung merger. 

20 March 2025

The Russian Arbitration Association has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Court of Justice of the European Union, urging it to adopt a narrow reading of the “no claims” clause in the EU’s Russia sanctions regulation or risk negative effects including potential investment treaty claims. 

19 March 2025

A Chinese-owned company has defeated a billion-dollar claim over the supply of masks during the covid-19 pandemic to a US company, which failed to disclose it intended to resell the equipment.

18 March 2025

A SIAC tribunal that was asked by a Singapore court to revisit a US$570 million award in favour of a sanctioned Russian engineering group against Vietnam’s national oil and gas company has issued a new award – again finding the underlying contract had been validly terminated.

18 March 2025