STATUTORY LOOK-IN FOR ARBS
The Arbitration Act 2025 was brought fully into force on 1 August 2025 by SI 2025/905 and applies to arbitration agreements whenever made, but not to arbitration proceedings and some arbitration-related court proceedings commenced before that date. It plays around with the Arbitration Act 1996 and, thanks to artificial intelligence, some more play will inevitably be required in due course. Stronger immunity for arbitrators. Unless otherwise agreed, the applicable law is to be the law of the seat of the arbitration. And here’s a skate round just some of the more interesting other measures:
‘How do we get rid of them?’ The arbitrator’s impartiality is handy, and so they are now subjected to a duty of disclosure when approached about a possible appointment and post appointment. That disclosure—to the person making the approach or the parties to proceedings—is to be as soon as reasonably practical of circumstances of which
