December 2010
- Editorial
- Legal update
- Choices in arbitration: users' survey
- Dispute resolution in London
- Jivraj developments
- New UNCITRAL rules
- Noticeboard
- Focus on London: Professor Robert Merkin
Increased arbitration practice
Ogilvy Renault and Deneys Reitz have joined Norton Rose Group, creating a disputes practice that, as of June 1, 2011, will span 38 offices on five continents, with over 100 international disputes lawyers in Asia, Europe, North America, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. This combination brings Canada's leading international arbitration practice and South Africa's leading disputes practice into a global firm with a growing presence in the most important arbitration centres, including London, Paris, Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong. The combined practice currently has over 150 arbitration cases, in a portfolio estimated at over US$15 billion (excluding cases in which lawyers from the firm are sitting as arbitrator).
International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration 2011
Joe Tirado has been named in the Global Arbitration Review's International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration 2011 as a leading arbitration specialist.
2010 Australian Insurance Law Association Prize
Professor Robert Merkin, a consultant to the Norton Rose Group, has been awarded the Australian Insurance Law Association's 2010 prize for contribution to Australian insurance law and insurance education.
Institutional appointments
Singapore partner Guy Spooner has been appointed to serve on the board of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Board of Directors. Singapore partner KC Lye has been invited to join the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration panel of arbitrators. Dubai senior associate Henry Quinlan has been appointed to the panel of arbitrators of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.
Article on extensions to the Singapore courts' support for arbitration
KC Lye has written an article for SIAC on recent statutory amendments which empower Singapore courts to assist foreign seated arbitrations.
IBA Mediation Committee e-book
Joe Tirado and senior associate Amanda Greenwood have contributed a chapter on "Opening Statements" to the recently released IBA Mediation Techniques e-book.
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