“It is very helpful for a single practitioner work, such as this, to gather together the most important rules, guidelines and so-called `soft law’ on the subject”
Author: Khawar Qureshi QC
Publisher: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, 2016
Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780854901937
Overall, this book is a practical and user-friendly guide aimed at lawyers who practise international arbitration and are familiar with the general principles, but who can only benefit from the consolidation of all of the relevant materials into a single volume. It has been endorsed with a foreword by the eminent former Court of Appeal Judge, Sir Bernard Rix, whose judgment in FLS v Laker [1999] EWHC B3 (Comm) is still the leading English decision on “same chambers” conflict of interest in international arbitration.
International arbitration is an essential mechanism for the resolution of international commercial disputes. With increasing globalisation and international trading relationships it has, if anything, become more familiar to, and popular with, companies, individuals and states who have international trading relationships. An important reason for the attraction of international arbitration is, of course, the neutrality of the arbitral
