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Recent trends in ICSID arbitration, in light of ICSID’s publication of its 2022 caseload statistics
This article discusses and analyses the ICSID's 2022 caseload statistics. What do they indicate about future trends? Learn more!
Navigating Streaming Agreements: An Act of Balancing Interest
This article discusses alternative financing mechanisms for miners, particularly the increasing popularity of streaming agreements as a source of funding.
Still Trying to Fix What isn’t Broken?
One of the most significant and controversial proposals in the Law Commission’s first Consultation Paper on the English Arbitration Act...
The Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement: First Step Towards Saving the High Seas?
Following decades of negotiations and as part of COP 15, States have reached an agreement to protect the world’s oceans’...
Multi-Tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses: Towards Harmonisation?
The article examines the questions of competence, jurisdiction and admissibility in light of the recent developments as to the position...
Gaillard’s Tribute Before the Paris Court of Appeal: Was Justice Seen to be Done?
This article highlights arbitrators' independence and impartiality in exercising their jurisdictional functions in a recent decision where the Paris Court...
Amir Soleymani v Nifty Gateway: Arbitration and Consumer Protection in NFT disputes
The English Court of Appeal recently handed down its first judgment involving non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) in Amir Soleymani v Nifty...
AHG Industry v. Iraq and ICSID’s Manifest Lack of Legal Merit Rule
The English High Court has robust mechanisms in place to ensure a frivolous claim or defence is struck out at...
Arbitration 2022 Year in Review – England & Wales
Much has happened in England & Wales as well as in the UK in arbitration in 2022. A high number...
An Overview of the Law Commission’s Consultation Paper on Reviewing the English Arbitration Act 1996
Much has changed since the English Arbitration Act 1996 (the “Act”) came into force. Nonetheless, the Act has proven broadly...
Recent Global Trends in ISDS Disputes
Drawing on recent ICSID and UNCTAD reports, this article reflects on some of the global trends that have emerged in...
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