April 20, 2023

This lecture provides a platform for a younger generation of practitioners and academics to provide original insights which advance our thinking in a field of international dispute resolution, and for senior practitioners to comment. The Lecture this year will be delivered by Romesh Weeramantry. Toby Landau KC will deliver the response. This is an in-person event.

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March 22, 2023

On 13 March 2023, the General Division of the High Court allowed an appeal from an arbitral award on a question of law, pursuant to s 49 of the Arbitration Act 2001. The question of law concerned the proper construction of the word “delivery” for the purposes of the time-bar clause in Section 67 of

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March 2, 2023

On 18 January 2023, the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from a decision of the SICC rejecting the appellants’ claim that they were beneficially entitled to USD 10 million held by the respondents on the basis that, as part of a Ponzi scheme, the appellants’ money had been transferred to the respondents. Colin Liew

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March 2, 2023

The 1958 New York Convention is one of the most widely signed treaties. At its heart is the belief that international commerce and international politics can be separated. In 1992, Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history and the triumph of liberal democracy as the final form of government for all nations. In today’s fractured world,

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