Be bold, value emotional intelligence and improve your Microsoft Excel skills, Sylvia Noury and Nathalie Voser advised delegates as they spoke about their careers at GAR Interactive Women in Arbitration.
18 February 2021
A US court has been asked to compel a DC-based intellectual property boutique to turn over evidence for use in a DIFC-LCIA arbitration over a Saudi food delivery app.
25 January 2021
A California court has been asked to grant discovery in aid of a DIFC-LCIA case over a Saudi food delivery app, while a Swiss electronics company has lodged a similar request in support of an ICC claim.
26 November 2020
A Kenyan company has obtained a court order in Nairobi requiring the ICC to turn over documents for use in a fraud suit against an arbitrator – and says it has filed related criminal complaints against tribunal members in France and Austria.
02 November 2020
In a keynote speech, Justin D'Agostino looked at the practical and ethical challenges of moving hearings online in response to the coronavirus pandemic but argued that the community will overcome these and that the use of technology will improve international arbitration.
17 July 2020
The Vis moot has come to an end, with a team from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata taking the prize in the competition which this year had to happen virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.
20 April 2020
The ICC International Court of Arbitration has outlined measures that can be taken to mitigate the adverse effects of the coronavirus pandemic on arbitral proceedings.
13 April 2020
David Branson, an arbitrator and counsel based in Washington, DC, points to the tragedy that befell a US choir to warn of the risks of holding an in-person arbitration hearing during the coronavirus pandemic and argues that, for technology to be successfully used instead, institutions need to provide "office theatres" with movie-quality sound and visuals.
08 April 2020
The first virtual Vis East Moot has reached an end, with a team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong defeating a team from University of São Paulo in a final conducted on Microsoft Teams because of the need to avoid a physical gathering during the coronavirus pandemic.
30 March 2020
Arbitrator Neil Kaplan QC discusses how tribunals and institutions will have to adapt to the new era of social distancing ushered in by the coronavirus pandemic, calling for greater use of video conferencing and flexibility when it comes to compensating arbitrators for delayed cases.
30 March 2020
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