Organisation: Halliburton

An event in London hosted by the UK Ministry of Justice, the LCIA and the IDRC celebrated the passage into law of the new English arbitration act, described as “a labour of love” on the part of some present, and considered how it interacts with the latest version of the LCIA rules.

25 March 2025

In his first public speech as a professor of the National University of Singapore, Stavros Brekoulakis presented the findings of an empirical project he is leading on impartiality in ISDS and argued that the judicial test of impartiality currently applied to arbitrators is insufficiently nuanced and divorced from reality. 

20 August 2024

A London court has ordered an ICC tribunal to reconsider a jurisdictional award from a Nigerian loan dispute over the apparent bias of UK arbitrator Dame Elizabeth Gloster, who was disqualified from the panel after being challenged over her repeat nominations by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

02 August 2024

An UNCITRAL tribunal has awarded US$10 million in damages to a subsidiary of US oil services giant Halliburton in a contractual dispute with Ecuador’s national oil company.

01 August 2024

Louis Flannery KC is leaving his role as head of international arbitration at Mishcon de Reya to become a barrister at Littleton Chambers in London.

21 May 2024

Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof is to step down as director general of the LCIA after a decade in the role to become a London-based international arbitrator, as the search gets under way for her successor. 

20 May 2024

An event during Canadian Arbitration Week in Toronto discussed appropriate disclosure for arbitrators when accepting appointments, including recent case law from the UK, France and US that seeks to clarify applicable standards. Timothy Hughes, independent counsel and arbitrator based in Calgary, reports.

16 November 2023

A Canadian court has refused to revive a US$3 billion NAFTA claim against Mexico despite finding that the conduct of the state’s appointed arbitrator gave rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.

31 October 2023

English-qualified barrister Maanas Jain, who serves as co-chair of Young ICCA, has left Three Crowns after nearly a decade to join Paul Hastings in London.

18 September 2023

The Law Commission of England and Wales has published its final recommendations for reform of the Arbitration Act 1996, including on arbitrators’ disclosure duties and immunity, jurisdictional challenges to awards and deciding which law governs an arbitration agreement.

06 September 2023