A public consultation regarding Section 40 of the United Kingdom’s Crime and Courts Act of 2013 was completed last week. The highly contentious law was created in response to a legal inquiry that recommended judicial and other legal remedies should be made more readily available to members of the general public.

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Ronald A. Brand, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg Professor and Director for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law’s Center for International Legal Education has published a fascinating paper entitled, Challenges to Forum Non Conveniens, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP), Vol. 45, No. 3, 2013; U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-21.

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Further to the recent publication of the Leveson Report, “An inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press”, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) is well placed to provide arbitral services to a newly created independent regulatory body. In his report published on 29 November 2012, Lord Justice Leveson proposed the use of arbitration as an “essential component” in resolving civil disputes involving the press and the establ

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Following are this month’s recent developments in international arbitration law published by the International Law Office(free registration is required to view the articles):   Austria: Supreme Court takes restrictive view on state immunity Istanbul: Istanbul set to become international arbitration centre Ecuador: Arbitral tribunal rules against Ecuador United Kingdom: English courts may enforce award that has been set aside Cyprus: Im

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Following are this month’s recent developments in international arbitration law published by the International Law Office (free registration is required to view the articles): Brazil: Courting arbitration: specialised chamber decides first arbitration cases Canada: Stay denied where dispute fell under oral agreement and outside arbitration clause Greece: Appeal court considers law governing objective arbitrability Kenya: Aspects of arbitrat

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Last week, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (“CIArb”) launched the results of the CIArb’s survey into the costs of international arbitration. The survey was completed by arbitrators and lawyers from five continents and includes information on 254 arbitrations conducted between 1991 and 2010. Here are some of the highlights: The survey results indicate that the costs of international arbitration vary depending on where the arbitr

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The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) has announced that the Rt Hon Lord Dyson, Justice of the Supreme Court of the UK and formerly a leading practitioner in international commercial arbitration, will be the after dinner speaker at CIArb’s annual Gala Dinner in London on Tuesday 27 September, 2011. The dinner will celebrate the end of the first day of CIArb’s Costs of International Arbitration conference, where experts from the field wil

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By Brett Goodman The United States District Court for the Eastern District in Tyler, Texas, has allowed a motion to compel and denied a motion to protect in a suit concerning negotiation communications of formerly created license agreements to patents-in-suit. In Clear with Computers, LLC v. Bergdorf Goodman, Inc., 753 F. Supp. 2d 662, 663 (E.D. Tex. 2010) Clear With Computers (CWC), a provider of computer parts and repair, sued many defendants o

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Professor Alan Scott Rau, from The University of Texas School of Law, has made the following comments regarding our recent posts on Stolt-Nielsen (see posts Part I, Part II, and Part III). I ‘m afraid I just can’t understand all this talk about “silence,” and I could use some help here. Contracts very often expressly address a problem—in which case courts have the task of “interpreting” just what they said. But often there will be no express prov

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