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Arbitration 2020 overview: COVID-19 pandemic, renewable energy disputes agreements in Spain, the new LCIA rules and other global arbitration updates
2020 was without doubt an exceptional year. The COVID-19 global pandemic has impacted on all our lives and that has required us to make significant adjustments to way we conduct arbitration across the world. Despite the challenges that the pandemic…
International Arbitration Newsletter - December 2020
International Arbitration Newsletter - November 2020
Joinder of third parties in international arbitration
The complexity of international operations, as well as the existence of multiple contracts and the plurality of parties, often makes it necessary to involve third parties in the arbitration proceedings. Therefore, it is important to take…
Relieving the trial backlog: Arbitration to the rescue?
In view of the current overload of judicial bodies as a result of the COVID-19 standstill, arbitration can take a step forward and come to the rescue of the parties in dispute who want their conflicts to be resolved quickly.
International Arbitration Newsletter - September 2020
COVID-19 impact on investment arbitration
It is thought that the measures adopted to tackle the global crisis caused by the appearance of COVID-19 will be a catalyst for foreign investors filing claims against states. While we are likely to see an increase in investment arbitration in the…
International Arbitration Newsletter - July 2020
Towards a common response to COVID-19 from the arbitration world: A call to arms
The stakeholders in international arbitration (arbitral institutions, tribunals, counsel and parties) have responded to the difficulties and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by forging a closer cooperation to provide a common response to…
International Arbitration Newsletter - June 2020
COVID-19: Exceptional measures in the area of Justice introduced by the PEES in Portugal
On June 4, 2020, through Resolution nº 41/2020, the Council of Ministers approved the Program for Economic and Social Stabilization (Programa de Estabilização Económica e Social) (“PEES”), with a time horizon up to the end…
COVID-19: Return to a situation of (new) normality in the Portuguese Courts
On May 14, 2020, the Portuguese Parliament passed Law no. 16/2020, dated May 29, making the fourth amendment to Law no. 1-A/2020, dated March 19, determining various exceptional and temporary measures in response to the…