16 May, 2020 CADR & UNCCI: Webinar on Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Thesis, Anti-Thesis, and Possible Synthesis

Distinguished panellists will be; Professor Dr Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler President, International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), Marike Paulsson Senior Advisor, Allbright Stonebridge Group (ASG), Promod Nair Advocate and Arbitrator, Arista Chambers Opening remarks from; Professor Ajay Thomas Arbitrator & Director, Faculty of Law at Manav Rachna University (MRU). Moderators are; Gourab Banerji Senior Advocate, Supreme Court […]
28 May, 2020 Essex Court Chambers Webinar: Getting the Documents: Cross Border Evidence from Third Parties in Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

Documents win cases. But in an increasingly interconnected world, sometimes the key documents end up in the hands of third parties, in different jurisdictions to the main dispute… Join Richard Hoyle for this webinar, which looks at how to get at documents located in England & Wales, in support of foreign commercial litigation and arbitration. […]
4 June, 2020 Essex Court Chambers Webinar: A and B v C, D and E [2020] EWCA Civ 409 – how far has the Court of Appeal opened the door to compelling evidence and obtaining interim orders against non-parties?

In A and B v C, D and E [2020] EWCA Civ 409 the Court of Appeal held that there is jurisdiction under s44(2)(a) of the Arbitration Act to compel a witness to give evidence by deposition in support of arbitration proceedings. Although on its face a decision on a narrow point of law, its theoretical and […]