Organisation: Halliburton
Panel in place for US investor's claim against Ecuador
A panel is in place at the Permanent Court of Arbitration to hear a claim brought against Ecuador by a US company linked to casino investors.
15 June 2023
Sinopec sees off challenge to Ecuador oilfield award
A Chilean court has upheld a US$64 million award won by Chinese state-owned energy group Sinopec against Ecuador’s national oil company, finding it did not violate national public policy.
18 May 2023
“A bad look”: arbitrator’s second appointment by counsel leads to set-aside
A Canadian court has set aside two awards in an espresso bar franchise dispute after it emerged through an accidental CC that the sole arbitrator had been appointed by one side’s counsel in a concurrent arbitration.
03 April 2023
GAR Live returns to Mumbai with lifetime award
GAR Live returned to India last month, for the first time since the pandemic, drawing a standing-room-only crowd and closing with a surprise lifetime achievement award for Justice B N Srikrishna.
17 March 2023
Mourre calls for universal standard of disclosure
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
Join us for GAR Live Mumbai
Readers are invited to join us next month for GAR Live Mumbai – which will feature sessions on whether Indian reforms are working, the potential introduction of summary applications in arbitration and the standards of arbitrator disclosure post-Halliburton.
12 January 2023
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: the English Arbitration Act and confidentiality
Zoe O’Sullivan KC, barrister and arbitrator at Serle Court in London, argues that the Law Commission’s provisional conclusion not to adopt a statutory code of confidentiality in the English Arbitration Act is pragmatic and sensible.
18 October 2022
Sinopec wins damages in Ecuador oil dispute
Chinese state-owned energy company Sinopec has won a US$64 million award against Ecuador’s national oil company over three Amazonian projects, a case that saw Quinn Emanuel partner David Orta disqualified as arbitrator because of his ties to the claimant’s counsel.
10 August 2022
New heads at Twenty Essex
Twenty Essex has appointed arbitration practitioners Philip Edey QC and Charles Kimmins QC as its new joint heads of chambers.
20 July 2022
US Supreme Court restricts discovery in foreign arbitrations
The US Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling that parties cannot seek discovery for foreign commercial and investor-state arbitration in federal courts – bringing an end to a long-standing circuit split.
13 June 2022