Challenges to arbitrators ‘remain rare and are even more rarely successful’, Latham & Watkins lawyers write in this week’s NLJ special focus on ADR (alternative dispute resolution). Analysis of London Court of International Arbitration and English court decisions in the past 21 years show challenges have been dealt with ‘robustly and consistently’, say lawyers Philip Clifford QC, Hannah Roos and Eleanor Scogings. They discuss where, how and why challenges may be brought.
Elsewhere, Leonora Riesenburg, chair of the UAE Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, highlights the importance of a new arbitration law and Katherine Yap discusses Smart Maxwell and the key role of Singapore as an arbitration hub. While Tim Wallis, chair of Trust Mediation, introduces the AFM Register of Mediators for personal injury and clinical negligence cases.
