Organisation: London Maritime Arbitrators Association

The Singapore Court of Appeal has refused to reinstate the award of a sole arbitrator who engaged in witness-gating, while ruling that it lacks the power to remit where such a remedy was not requested at first instance.

25 January 2021

UPDATED: The long-awaited UK Supreme Court ruling in Halliburton v Chubb is out, unanimously dismissing the appeal over apparent bias and naming the arbitrator at the centre of the controversy as Kenneth Rokison QC. 

27 November 2020

The Singapore High Court has set aside an award against an Indian steel manufacturer after finding that the sole arbitrator had denied it the right to a fair hearing by declining to call any of its seven witnesses.

02 March 2020

27 January 2020

In a closely-watched appeal on whether an arbitrator should have disclosed his involvement in overlapping insurance cases arising from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the UK Supreme Court has been warned that English law on the issue is “out of step” with international practice.

13 November 2019

The inaugural London International Disputes Week (LIDW) has got underway, with a full day of events followed by an opening drinks reception at Banking Hall.

07 May 2019

10 January 2019

London is to play host to its first International Disputes Week, just weeks after the UK is scheduled to withdraw from the European Union on 29 March.

03 December 2018

In an interview that first appeared in Marine Strategy, Ian Gaunt, president of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association, talks about the work of the world’s leading body specialised in commercial maritime dispute resolution.

15 August 2018

A spinoff of South Korea’s Daewoo Group has been denied permission to appeal two London Maritime Arbitrators Association awards rejecting claims of more than US$370 million after the English Commercial Court ruled it was too late.

21 March 2018