Organisation: London Maritime Arbitrators Association

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 UK’s new Labour government will not address issues of corruption in reforms to the country’s arbitration legislation despite the high-profile P&ID v Nigeria case – and has postponed reforms on litigation funding agreements until at least summer 2025. 

22 August 2024

A UK judge has refused to restrain an Emirati trading company from enforcing an anti-arbitration injunction issued by the Malaysian courts in a dispute over shipments of oil that allegedly violate US sanctions.

30 April 2024

A recent judgment of the English High Court considered what is required to validly appoint an arbitrator under the 1996 Arbitration Act, calling for a broad, non-technical and pragmatic approach to the question. 

14 July 2022

As the Law Commission of England and Wales undertakes a review of the 1996 English Arbitration Act, practitioners marked its 25th anniversary of coming into force, on 31 January 1997, with a discussion of whether it's still "best in class". 

03 February 2022

ICC Court president Claudia Salomon used a GAR Live London keynote today to urge arbitrators and parties to agree on a list of issues in dispute at an early stage of a case, while discouraging the use of catch-all language in the terms of reference.

09 November 2021

Readers are invited to join us next week for GAR Live: London, where ICC International Court of Arbitration president Claudia Salomon will deliver a keynote address, Toby Landau QC will sit down for a fireside chat and there will be debate on the future of intra-EU investment disputes.  

02 November 2021

James Clanchy, a former registrar and deputy director of the LCIA, has been appointed honorary secretary of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association.

19 March 2021

Carlos Alvarado has left Hogan Lovells after a decade to launch a commercial disputes boutique in Mexico City.

18 March 2021

Azerbaijan’s national oil company has won damages in a third arbitration against a Turkish shipping group and its founder, bringing its total compensation in the cases to over US$240 million – after again defeating allegations that the parties had verbally agreed to form a joint venture.

05 February 2021