This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of a High Court decision concerning an anti-arbitration injunction, a decision on the basis of leave to appeal pursuant to the Arbitration Act 1996; coverage of Germany’s draft arbitration bill; updates from the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and arbitrateAD. All this, and more, in our weekly highlights.

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of arbitration-related court decisions from England and Wales, Singapore, India, Switzerland, Uganda, Bosina and Herzegovina, France and the USA alongwith reports on various planned arbitration law reforms, Finland and Malaysia. We also report on key arbitration community events and market news in international arbitration. The evening celebration of the recent publication of the LexisNexis International Arbitration Handbook on 20th January 2026 is also noted and registration details for the event provided. All this, and more, in our weekly highlights.

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of arbitration-related decisions from Singapore, Switzerland, the European Commission and the PCA; and updates from UNCITRAL, AAA, ICAC and CIArb. All this, and more, in our weekly highlights.

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes coverage of arbitration-related decisions from Hong Kong, Singapore and Germany, and updates from the LCIA, AAA and DIA. All this, and more in our weekly highlights.

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of arbitration-related decisions from UAE and Singapore, further updates from ACICA launching of a public consultation on proposed amendments to the ACICA Arbitration Rules and updates from AIAC and MCIA. All this, and more, in our weekly highlights.

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of arbitration-related decisions from England and Brazil; updates from the LCIA, DIAC, QICCA, NAI, CAM-CCBC, and DIS; and an article on the evolution of the French approach to corruption in international arbitration. All this, and more in our weekly highlights.

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of arbitration-related decisions from England and Wales, France, Singapore and the US, as well as further updates from HKIAC, the ICC, the LCIA, SCCA and UNCITRAL. All this, and more, in our weekly highlights.

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of intra-EU investment decisions from Sweden, Germany and Switzerland; updates from Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). All this, and more, in our weekly highlights.

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of arbitration-related decisions from England & Wales, Scotland, France, Hong Kong, Israel and the US, updates from CAM, PCA, ICSID, QMUL, China and Qatar, and analysis of the regulatory landscape for cryptoassets in global finance. All this, and more, in our weekly highlights.

Arbitration analysis: The Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) overruled an ICC tribunal hearing a dispute between a Pakistani company and a Bermuda company pertaining to hydrocarbon exploration in Pakistan and held that contrary to the tribunal’s earlier order, the tribunal did indeed have jurisdiction. The issue arose out of certain standard agreements which expressly provided for international arbitration in certain instances and domestic arbitration in other instances but contained no express provision regarding disputes between a foreign working interest owner (WIO) and a domestic WIO. The same documents though contained a catchall provision referring to certain statutory rules which in turn contained a catchall domestic arbitration provision. The issue was therefore whether to interpret an ambiguous set of standard form documents in favour of foreign arbitration or domestic arbitration. The tribunal had held in favour of domestic arbitration even though the England and Wales Court of Appeal had earlier interpreted the same standard form documents as providing for foreign arbitration. The SICC reversed on the basis that the tribunal had failed to correctly appreciate the intent of the parties. Written by Feisal Hussain Naqvi, senior partner at Bhandari, Naqvi & Riaz (Lahore); associate member at 3 Verulam Buildings (London).

Arbitration analysis: The Supreme Court of India has attempted to put at rest controversy over the extraordinarily high fees that arbitral tribunals in a typical Indian domestic ad-hoc arbitration (ie, an ad-hoc arbitration between two Indian parties where the seat is in India), are known to charge. The court has upheld the salutary principle of party autonomy through the agreement between the parties and the statutory guidance in the Fourth Schedule to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 (‘the Act’) (as inserted by the 2015 Amendment to the Act) in this matter, while denuding the arbitral tribunals of any power to unilaterally fix or revise their fee. The court, while making certain directions for the determination of the tribunal’s fees, has advisedly steered clear of making any directions in respect of any international commercial arbitration (ie, an arbitration involving at least one non-Indian party or a non-Indian seat) or an institutional arbitration. Written by Madhur Baya, principal at LexArbitri, India and managing director, LexArbitri (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Singapore

Arbitration analysis: While Hong Kong has recently enacted legislation to allow outcome related fee structures in relation to arbitration, and despite the fact that contingency fee arrangements are common in many jurisdictions around the world, such arrangements remain illegal in respect of Hong Kong litigation. In BB v KO, the Hong Kong court was asked to consider the validity of an arbitration award entered pursuant to an arbitration agreement in a lawyer's retainer agreement. The engagement in question contained: 1) a contingency fee arrangement; and 2) concerned multiple pieces of cross-border litigation and included reference to litigation in Hong Kong. The application before the court was an application to set aside the arbitration award made in Chicago under Illinois law awarding the law firm USD50m in fees pursuant to a contingency fee arrangement. One of the grounds for set aside was the fact that, although the principal litigation to be dealt with under the engagement was in the Nevada courts, there was reference to strategic advice in relation to Hong Kong litigation. In exercising her discretion not to extend time the Honourable Justice Mimmie Chan concluded that in examining whether or not a relationship offended the rules of champerty the totality of the facts must be examined to ask whether they pose a genuine risk to the court's processes. Written by Andrew Rigden Green, partner, head of international arbitration, Greater China, at Stephenson Harwood.