Basel Winter Arbitration School is inviting its faculty, participants and the public to attend the keynote lecture ‘Reviewing Arbitration: Contradiction in Terms or Necessary Virtue?’ of Professor August Reinisch. One of the main advantages of arbitration is its relative speed, resulting among others from the fact that it is a single instance form of dispute settlement […]
The Basel Winter Arbitration School will take place on 6-11 February 2022 at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel, Switzerland’s oldest university. CIS Arbitration Forum is the event’s media partner.online pharmacy https://www.3-dmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/jpg/levaquin.html no prescription drugstore The school will feature prominent arbitration practitioners and academics covering different types of public, private and hybrid arbitration topics, and will […]
On 23 January 2017 the Court of Arbitration for Sport rendered an award on doping case CAS 2016/A/4708 Belarus Canoe Association & Belarusian Senior Men’s Canoe and Kayak team members v International Canoe Federation. The appeal filed by the Belarus Canoe Association (the “BCA“) and the Belarusian senior men’s canoe and kayak team members against the decision […]
CIS Arbitration Forum continues its series of interviews with representatives of major international arbitration institutions working on disputes related to Russia and the CIS region. The idea is to provide updates from major arbitration institutions and their efforts to improve services rendered to arbitration users from the region. Today we publish an interview with Philipp Habegger, President of the […]
While the recent agreement between Yukos shareholders and Rosneft settles all litigation disputes between them, it does not solve the existing disputes between Yukos and Russia as a state, in particular the $50 billion arbitration award made by the PCA in The Hague in 2014. As Russia refuses to voluntarily comply with the award, Yukos […]
Controversies have surrounded the purchase of French Mistral helicopter carriers by Russia since the very beginning. In 2010, after eight months of talks, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved the purchase of two ships of the Mistral class from France for €1.37 billion. The deal was concluded despite objections from some of France’s allies in NATO. […]
In June 2013, the Federal Commercial Court of the Moscow Circuit rendered a decision allowing the enforcement of an Order for Termination of Arbitral Proceedings issued by a Swiss arbitral tribunal (with B. Berger (chairman), R. Favre Schnyder and V. Heiskanen as arbitrators). The CIS Arbitration Forum has already covered this story. Presently, the appeal to the Supreme Commercial […]
When faced with an almost identical issue in the course of arbitration proceedings, Swiss and Russian arbitrators or courts seem to reach different conclusions. A common issue in arbitration is an imprecise designation of the arbitral tribunal in an arbitration clause. This article considers the effect of such flawed arbitration clauses in the light of […]
The Russian State Duma is considering draft amendments to the Russian Civil Code. Bad faith (недобросовестность) – already impermissible in the exercise of civil rights under article 10 CC RF – is expected to be wiped out right at the stage of “negotiations in view to conclude a contract” under new article 434 CC RF. Russia […]
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