IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDIATING INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL DISPUTES (UPDATE) On 12 September 2020, the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, also known as the Singapore Convention (‘Convention’) came into force. The Convention opened for signatures just over a year ago, on 7 August 2019, and very rapidly gained […]
Some Background Travelodge is a budget hotel operator (and UK’s largest independent hotel brand) with about 590 hotels, principally in UK and also in Ireland and Spain. The Travelodge Group owners are investment bank Goldman Sachs, Luxemburg based Anchor Holdings and its investors include US hedge funds Avenue Capital and Golden […]
Limitation and Representation under GAFTA Rules It is estimated that around 80% of all the grains globally are sold under GAFTA standard contracts. GAFTA has a dispute resolution system, which is “crafted and adjusted exclusively” for the international grain trade. Time Limitation under GAFTA Contracts Traders who incorporate GAFTA Arbitration […]
Recent Court Decision Bilateral Investment Treaty – Claim as an investor under the treaty In The Republic of Korea v Dayyani & Ors [2019] EWHC 3850 (Comm), the Commercial Court has dismissed a jurisdictional challenge to an arbitral award. In this case the court had to analyse various submissions including whether the […]
Have you been locked out of your commercial property & business overnight by your landlord? Is your landlord telling you that your lease has been forfeited and you no longer have any right over the property or your business? Is your landlord trying to create a new tenancy in the […]
Option to Buy a Share of the Freehold Background The dispute relates to the events that took place in the year 2007, when the Claimants (“our client”) bought a house in a new development. After spotting the onerous terms contained in the draft Lease which provided that the ground rent […]
The current reform implements e-filing, online case management and in some cases even online dispute resolution. The revolutionary pilot scheme which allows money claims to be filed online by creditors is already in action https://www.gov.uk/make-money-claim. The new system is designed to process up to 2,000,000 civil claims a year, and to serve […]
The Singapore Convention – Implications for mediating international commercial disputes On 7 August 2019, 46 countries signed the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (‘Convention’) (known as the Singapore Convention on Mediation). The substantial number of signatory states, including two major actors in international trade, the […]
We were instructed by our client, who was the purported defendant in a debt recovery claim. The claim had been brought against our client by a credit agency. Our client however disputed the claim on the grounds of stolen identity, and accordingly argued he was not a party to the […]
