Organisation: International Court of Justice

An UNCITRAL tribunal hearing a mining tycoon’s US$200 billion treaty claim against Australia over an iron ore project has denied his request for interim measures.

05 February 2024

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Russia breached international conventions against the financing of terrorism and racial discrimination following its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula – but rejected Ukraine’s requests for further relief, including its claims for damages.  

31 January 2024

Mahnaz Malik, an arbitrator and barrister at Twenty Essex in London, has become a member of the World Bank Sanctions Board, where she will decide on "sanctionable practices" such as corruption and fraud in World Bank-financed projects. 

17 January 2024

UPDATED: A tribunal has begun hearing a first-of-its-kind arbitration brought by Azerbaijan against Armenia under the Energy Charter Treaty, one of the many legal proceedings arising from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

16 January 2024

Russia has challenged two arbitrators in an inter-state dispute because they voted in favour of a declaration by the Institute of International Law criticising Russian military operations in Ukraine.

03 January 2024

Russia has sought to disqualify two arbitrators hearing an inter-state dispute over its detention of Ukrainian naval vessels and servicemen in waters adjacent to Crimea.

13 December 2023

Sir Christopher Greenwood KC combined an eloquent analysis of the role of public international law in arbitration with entertaining stories from his own career in the 38th Freshfields Lecture. 

11 December 2023

An event organised by the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration's "Young EFILA" network and Herbert Smith Freehills discussed the future of the enforcement of intra-EU investment arbitration awards in the UK and the US. Jefferi Hamzah Sendut of HSF in London reports.

24 November 2023

The International Court of Justice has granted Armenia further provisional measures relating to Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan seized the territory in a lightning offensive in September.

17 November 2023

Leading Geneva-based arbitrator Charles Poncet has seen off another attempt to disqualify him from a tribunal in light of a quashed criminal conviction in the Italian courts – as he makes a surprise return to Swiss politics.

06 November 2023