International Arbitration Newsletter - March 2019 | Institutional and Other News

Institutional News

IBA and ICCA create joint task force on Data Protection in international arbitration

The International Council for Commercial Arbitration and the International Bar Association have created a joint task force to produce a guide to data protection issues in international arbitration.

The task force will publish a draft guide in March 2019 for public comment on the ICCA and IBA websites.

SIAC releases case load statistics

The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) has recently released its caseload statistics for 2018, showing that the number of new cases handled by SIAC exceeded 400 for the second year running, albeit dropping from 452 in 2017 to 402 last year.

Team News

Appointments:

• Senior Associate Daniel Morata (Valencia) has been appointed Director of the Valencia Arbitration Tribunal (Tribunal Arbitral de Valencia) of the Valencia Bar (ICAV).

Publications:

• Partners Joe Tirado (London), Alberto Acevedo (Colombia), Pedro Tent (Valencia) and Associate Gabriela Cosio (Mexico) contribute chapters in the new Kluwer Law International publication, 60 Years of the New York Convention: Key Issues and Future Challenges.