AIGLI, the Italian Association of Jurists of Italian Language, had held a very successful conference in Bologna on September 15, 2017.
Chaired by Irene Pelargonio, the Session held at the Alma Mater University of Bologna covered various topics, such as …
The Chapter in Sicily has been revived by a new Executive Committee.
The opening was celebrated in Palermo on 20 October 2017 by a well-attended conference in the Main Hall of the Court of Appeal.
The topics which were dealt …
The opening of the new Chapter in Cyprus, which is a joint venture between the European Centre for Arbitration and Mediation based in Strasbourg and the School of Law of UCLan Cyprus, was celebrated on 16 June 2017 by an …
David Wood QC, the Chairman of the Governors of the Inns of Court College of Advocacy, has reminded the international audience at a CIArb Conference in Paris on December 8, 2017 that Counsel’s obligation to help his/her Client to win …
Following SIA and SCC, even ICC has in its Notes on the Conduct of Arbitration under the ICC Rules, emphasized that tribunals have the authority to determine “manifestly unmeritorious claims or defenses on an expedite basis”.
This is the result …
An ICSID Tribunal has dismissed all the applications from a Kuwait principal and European contractors, concerning a dispute on the construction of a highway, amongst which applications to stop to execute works and to order that they may continue. The …
Manuel Conthe, former President of the Spain’s securities commission, has been named president of the Spanish Court of Arbitration.…
Prof. José Carlos Fernandez Rozas, Chair of Private International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid and Chairman of our Capitulo Español, has delivered a lecture on arbitration awards at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg.…
The Emergency Arbitration rules which were introduced in Singapore and Hong Kong, then by the ICC, in the waive of the Uncitral Model Law revision, which provides for enforcement of emergency arbitration awards is nevertheless a source of doubts.
First …
Dominique Hascher, judge at the French Court of Cassation, has reminded the audience at the CIArb conference on arbitration on December 12, 2017 that the French precedents position is that awards are universal and not linked to the local law.…