Lexis+® UK Arbitration monthly update—December 2013

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Welcome to the Lexis+® UK Arbitration update for December 2013, this year’s last. The preceding 12 months have borne witness to a number of notable arbitration judgments, decisions and awards, as well as many significant developments in international arbitral law and practice. In relation to domestic arbitration, our pick from the riches is the Supreme Court’s ruling that the English court has power pursuant to the Senior Courts Act 1981, s 37 to restrain a party from pursuing court proceedings in a jurisdiction outside the European regime of Regulation (EC) 44/2001 and the Lugano Convention, in breach of an arbitration agreement, even if no arbitration is in contemplation (Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC v AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP). As for international arbitration, the release of revised editions of the SIAC and HKIAC arbitration rules and other developments in the region further strengthened Asia’s arbitration offering on the global stage, while in investment treaty arbitration, the historic disqualification of not one, but two arbitrators in ICSID arbitrations...