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The International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) of the American Arbitration Association has released its revised Arbitration and Mediation Rules, which came into force on 1 March 2021 (the 2021 ICDR Rules). The new rules will apply to any arbitration or mediation commenced after that date unless agreed otherwise. Read more
On Thursday 18 March 2021 at 10.45 am (GMT) speakers from Herbert Smith Freehills will join the panel for a live London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation (LCAM) webinar on Mediation in Arbitration. Read more
We are pleased to share this Mediation in Arbitration podcast, in which Craig Tevendale, Chris Parker and Rebecca Warder discuss the results of the Herbert Smith Freehills and London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation (LCAM) Mediation in Arbitration Survey (discussed in this previous post). The podcast also covers potential barriers to mediation in international arbitration, … Read more
The Herbert Smith Freehills arbitration team has partnered with the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation to conduct a snapshot survey of more than 50 mediators, exploring their experience of mediation in arbitration in 2019 and 2020. The results of the survey shed light on current take-up of mediation in arbitration, the stages of the … Read more
The Mediation in Arbitration Survey is now closed and we are very grateful to the more than 50 mediators who have shared their experience with Herbert Smith Freehills and the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation. Read more
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Alternative Dispute Resolution (the “APPG”) has recently published a report titled ‘Securing the UK’s position as a global disputes hub: Best practice lessons between Singapore and the UK’ (the “Report). The Report follows from the APPG’s fact-finding visit to Singapore, in which it aimed to learn how Singapore has established … Read more
In Wales (t/a Selective Investment Services) v CBRE Managed Services Ltd & Anor [2020] EWHC 1050 (Comm) (30 April 2020) (Wales), the High Court (the Court) disallowed a substantial part of a successful defendant’s costs as a result of its failure to engage in mediation. This is the latest decision in a number of recent … Read more
The High Court has imposed indemnity costs in two recent cases (DSN v Blackpool Football Club Ltd [2020] EWHC 670 (QB) and BXB v Watch Tower and Bible Tract Society of Pennsylvannia & Ors [2020] EWHC 656 (Admin)) as a result of a party’s unreasonable failure to engage in ADR. Read more
