Organisation: The Australian

The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) has named Diana Bowman as its secretary-general to replace Deborah Tomkinson, who leaves the role to join Peter & Kim in Sydney. 

07 August 2024

A US court has enforced a US$200 million LCIA award won by a subsidiary of the UAE’s DP World against Djibouti – having already confirmed an award in a separate arbitration over the same port facility on the Red Sea. 

24 July 2024

Australia’s Sundance Resources has agreed to settle its US$17.6 billion ICC claim against the Republic of the Congo over the revocation of mining licences.

03 July 2024

The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration has appointed independent arbitrator Judith Levine as its new president while Deborah Tomkinson is stepping down as secretary general. 

25 June 2024

A tribunal has rejected a Canadian investor’s US$180 million claim against Colombia over a ban on mining operations in high-altitude wetlands – one of three ICSID cases over the same environmental measures.

10 June 2024

Monty Taylor has left the partnership at Arnold & Porter in London to join Tenth Floor Chambers in Sydney as a barrister. 

04 June 2024

Initiatives to improve the diversity and sustainability of arbitration were among the winners at last night’s GAR Awards in Paris, while Covington & Burling, Judith Gill KC, and the team on a high-profile case for Nigeria also picked up prizes.

22 March 2024

An ICC arbitrator has declined to hear a claim by one of China’s largest mining groups over its purported purchase of a stake in a major lithium project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

18 March 2024

An Australian mining company says it has obtained provisional measures in an ICSID arbitration against the Democratic Republic of the Congo over a disputed lithium project that has also spawned various ICC claims.

23 January 2024

Australian engineering company Worley has not only lost a recent US$175 million arbitration against Ecuador, it has likely invited the US Department of Justice to scrutinise whether the company bribed foreign officials, two former US prosecutors told GAR’s sister publication Global Investigations Review (GIR). 

19 January 2024