LISBON ARBITRATION

The current pandemic, caused by SARS CoV-2 and COVID-19 (“ COVID-19 pandemic ” or “ pandemic ”), has had, and will likely continue to have, in the coming months, a very significant impact on several social and economic sectors, in particular, on the justice sector and on the activity of state courts and individuals that provide services in this sector, including lawyers, judges and arbitrators, as well as other entities, such as arbitral institutions. As regards arbitration in particu...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has recently revised its Note to Parties and Arbitral Tribunals on the Conduct of the Arbitration under the ICC Rules of Arbitration (“Note”). The Note provides the users of ICC arbitration (including parties, arbitral tribunals and administrative secretaries) with useful, practical guidance on the conduct of arbitrations under the ICC Rules of Arbitration (last amended in 2017). Importantly, the new version of the Note applies to “all ICC a...

If one had to name this year’s most groundbreaking decision regarding investment arbitration in Europe that would probably be the Achmea judgment, rendered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on March 6, 2018 [1] . And the year hasn’t even ended… In that judgment, the CJEU ruled that the arbitration clause contained in Article 8 of the bilateral investment treaty entered into by the Netherlands and the former Czechoslovakia in 1991 [2] (‘Netherlands-Slovakia BIT’ ),...