Organisation: ICC International Court of Arbitration

The new ICC Hearing Centre in Paris, which opened this week four years after the closure of the last centre, offers secure, state-of-the-art hearing rooms for in-person, hybrid and virtual hearings that span the upper ground floor of a new five-storey complex. 

20 December 2024

A working group launched by the French Ministry of Justice and chaired by Thomas Clay and Judge François Ancel is to undertake a reform of France’s arbitration law.

29 November 2024

A German defence contractor has reportedly won around €25 million in an ICC arbitration against Greece arising from a two-decade old contract for the supply of tanks.

26 November 2024

In the latest Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Alexander Lecture, ICC Court president Claudia Salomon discussed how arbitral institutions should not just administer cases but protect the integrity of the arbitral process, fairly control participation and access to justice and help parties navigate their way though the process.

13 November 2024

The Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration has unveiled the latest MCIA Council, responsible for the implementation of the centre’s rules, and announced plans for this year’s India ADR Week, including a T20 cricket match. 

12 September 2024

Ketevan Betaneli, who has spent more than 15 years practising international arbitration at law firms and in the Georgian government, has left Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to work as an independent arbitrator in Paris. 

05 September 2024

DECISION NOW PUBLIC: A court in the Dubai International Financial Centre has upheld an ICC award worth US$1.6 billion that found a prominent Iraqi businessman had conspired to bribe public officials – dismissing arguments that the tribunal relied on unlawfully procured evidence.

30 August 2024

Luis Fabara, Santiago Escobar and Omar Colomé have been promoted to the partnership at Mexican boutique Bufete Asali. 

23 August 2024

Iraq and one of its state-owned entities have failed to reverse the confirmation of a US$120 million ICC award relating to the construction of a sea wall after a US court rejected their sovereign immunity arguments. 

22 August 2024

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