Organisation: Iran-US Claims Tribunal

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

Paris-based arbitration specialist and deputy chairman of the LCIA James Castello has joined Arbitration Chambers as a full-time arbitrator after retiring from King & Spalding.

01 October 2024

World Bank president Ajay Banga has added 20 names to ICSID’s panels of arbitrators and conciliators – while the US, China, Colombia and Pakistan are among the latest states to make designations. 

04 July 2024

After a long judicial career specialising in cases relating to international arbitration, Judge Dominique Hascher has retired from France’s Court of Cassation to become a full-time arbitrator.

01 July 2024

Ahead of her keynote speech at London International Disputes Week, ICSID’s departing secretary general Meg Kinnear spoke to GAR about the centre’s remarkable growth over her 15-year tenure, how she reacts to critiques of investor-state dispute settlement and what she plans to do next. 

22 May 2024

Russia appears to have added prominent arbitrator Lucy Reed to a list of US citizens subject to sanctions following her election to the board of the Register of Damage for Ukraine.

20 March 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

A Maltese company has won around €70 million in an Energy Charter Treaty claim against Bulgaria concerning one of Europe’s largest solar parks.

09 January 2024

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

The ICC Court has disqualified Swiss arbitrator Charles Poncet from hearing Crescent Petroleum’s US$32 billion arbitration against the National Iranian Oil Company after he was accused of displaying anti-Muslim bias during a television broadcast about swimwear.

30 November 2023