11 October 2018
Diversity In Arbitration? A law students Perspective
Recently, YMG member Gunita Phalswal attended the Diversity in Arbitration event held at Hogan Lovells Singapore. As a law student who wants to progress into the field of arbitration, she took away the following lessons from this event.
11 October 2018
Heated Debate: Giving Evidence in the Hot Tub
Witness conferencing has become a popular means of taking evidence, particularly from expert witnesses, in commercial arbitrations. In this article Timothy Cooke FCIArb looks at common approaches to ‘hot-tubbing’, as the process is sometimes known, and how it can contribute to the efficacy and efficiency of proceedings.
11 October 2018
China International Commercial Court
Given the value, complexity, location and sheer number of projects which comprise China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), it is highly likely that disputes will arise between parties involved in BRI projects, whether it be the states involved themselves, investors, lenders and other funders, contractors and subcontractors or companies in the vast supply chains that will be engaged by the initiative.
01 October 2018
Recognising the development of 'Arbitration Consciousness' in Africa
Diversity as a worldwide phenomenon has challenged the minds of many a great men. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity”.