10/14/2025 9:23:28 AM Indemnity Costs for "Hopeless" Arbitration Challenges By Florence Murphy Heidi Walsh On 4 July 2025 Mr Justice Calver handed down his judgment on consequential matters after he had dismissed a challenge of an arbitral...
5/21/2025 7:49:59 AM EVENT: London International Disputes Week 2025 By Sacha Robson Join the Howard Kennedy Commercial Dispute Resolution team at London International Disputes Week 2025 where we'll be co-hosting three...
1/31/2025 3:48:53 PM Court of Appeal clarifies relationship between conflicting EU court decisions and English arbitral awards By Arish Bharucha The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in five related appeals ([2024] EWCA Civ 1536), providing important guidance on the...
5/15/2024 9:07:55 AM EVENT: London International Disputes Week 2024 By Lauren Hoffman Alongside our co-hosts 3VB, Brick Court and Kroll, Howard Kennedy's Commercial Dispute Resolution team are proud to be hosting three...
2/23/2024 5:18:51 PM Challenge Accepted? Or, will the proposed reforms to the Arbitration Act 1996 prevent unfounded challenges to arbitration awards? By Arish Bharucha Does the Arbitration Act give effect to one of its "founding principles", which is "the object of arbitration is to obtain the fair...
2/15/2024 3:07:46 PM AI and arbitration: should the updated Arbitration Act be addressing issues around AI? By Rebecca Wyke Artificial intelligence ("AI") is becoming an ever-increasing presence in the legal sphere, from disclosure review to document drafting...
12/20/2023 5:10:46 PM Litigation Funding Agreements in a Flux: A Ray of Hope for Litigation Funders Following the Supreme Court's Decision in PACCAR Inc v. CAT By Howard Kennedy On 26 July 2023, the Supreme Court handed down its much-awaited judgment by a 4:1 majority in the case of R (PACCAR Inc and others) v...
11/21/2023 11:11:32 AM (Due) Process & Industrial Development? By Arish Bharucha The saga arising from the relationship between Process & Industrial Developments ("P&ID") and the Federal Republic of Nigeria has...
11/2/2023 11:45:55 AM Law Society report highlights value of English law to the UK economy By Robyn Watson The Law Society recently published the International Data Insights Report 2023. The report examines the value of English law to the UK...
10/24/2023 12:01:39 PM Recent developments on applications for anti-suit injunctions and anti-enforcement injunctions for foreign-seated arbitrations in the English courts By Arish Bharucha Introduction Generally, the English courts will grant anti-suit injunctions ("ASIs") in support of arbitration agreements with a seat in...
9/18/2023 9:27:13 AM Court of Appeal upholds summary dismissal of jurisdictional challenge to USD $2.4 billion damages award By Rebecca Wyke In National Iranian Oil Company v Crescent Petroleum Company International Ltd and another [2023], the English Court of Appeal held that...
9/11/2023 10:34:41 AM The Law Commission's Final Report on its review of the Arbitration Act 1996: Steady as she goes By Ajay Fournillier The Law Commission of England and Wales (LC) has published the eagerly anticipated conclusion of its review of the Arbitration Act 1996....