On 5 November 2019, the Macau Official Gazette announced the publication of Law no. 19/2019, the new arbitration law of the Macau SAR (“New Arbitration Law”). This legislation will come into force on 4 May 2020. The full text of the legislation can be found here . The New Arbitration Law replaces the current regime set out more than 20 years ago and introduces important amendments to the arbitration legal framework of Macau. The key changes in the New Arbitration Law include: 1. One sin...
It is widely accepted in the international arbitration community that arbitral tribunals may draw adverse inferences from a party’s failure to produce a document requested in the proceedings. As an example of that, the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (“IBA Rules”) specifically recognize this possibility in Article 9.5. In this context, an adverse inference can be described as the presumption that an unproduced document is unfavourable to the interests of the p...
After three years of debate, on 26 June 2018, in its 51 st annual session held in New York, Uncitral approved final drafts for a Convention on the Enforcement of Mediation Settlement Agreements (hereinafter “the Singapore Mediation Convention”) and for a Model Law on International Commercial Mediation and International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (hereinafter “the Mediation Model Law”). These drafts will be submitted to the Commission for adoption by the end of 2018 and onl...
Lisbon Arbitration was born with the ambition of being a major project for Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva e Associados (Morais Leitão), but also with the ambition of being yet another cog in the wheel of affirming Lisbon as one of the capitals of international arbitration. Recently, when negotiating an arbitration agreement, one of the largest companies of the Portuguese-speaking countries outside of Europe proposed to its North American counterpart that the seat of ar...
Mozambique has been witnessing a number of high-profile investments instrumental to the development of the country’s very significant natural resources, particularly coal and natural gas. The Nacala Corridor Railway and Port Project, sponsored by Brazilian mining company Vale to export coal from the Moatize coal mines, and the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Projects in the Rovuma Basin in the north of the country, by Anadarko and Eni/Exxon Mobil, deserve a special mention, even if at different s...
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