Organisation: Halliburton

In a closely-watched appeal on whether an arbitrator should have disclosed his involvement in overlapping insurance cases arising from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the UK Supreme Court has been warned that English law on the issue is “out of step” with international practice.

13 November 2019

Hussein Haeri, partner and co-head of international arbitration at Withers, and associates Camilla Gambarini and Ruzin Dagli look back at 10 key international arbitration developments of 2018 and what to expect in the months ahead.

14 January 2019

UPDATED. The UK Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal on whether an arbitrator should have disclosed his involvement in overlapping insurance cases relating to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico – with interventions expected from the ICC International Court of Arbitration, LCIA and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

30 November 2018

A joint venture between Spain’s Naturgy and Italy’s Eni has applied to a US court to enforce a US$2 billion ICSID award it secured against Egypt earlier this year – with the award and dissent published for the first time.

19 October 2018

The English Court of Appeal has ruled that an arbitrator chairing an insurance case arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico ought to have disclosed his involvement in overlapping cases – but said his failure to do did not make him biased.

23 April 2018

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