International Arbitration Newsletter | Summer 2021

• Published date: 08 July 2021
• Subject Matter: Corporate/Commercial Law, Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration, Insolvency/Bankruptcy/Re-structuring, Corporate and Company Law, Insolvency/Bankruptcy, Contracts and Commercial Law, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
• Law Firm: Quadrant Chambers
• Author: Mr Simon Rainey QC, Robert-Jan Temmink and Ben Gardner

OVERVIEW

The latest edition of the Quadrant Chambers International Arbitration Newsletter is now available.

The editorial is provided by Simon Rainey QC.

Allegations of conflicts of interest and of apparent bias are a constant theme in international arbitration. Hard on the heels of last year's English Supreme Court decision in Halliburton Co v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd [2020] UKSC 48 last year come two interesting perspectives. One, considered by Ben Gardner in this newsletter, is a useful decision of the ICC Court on the 'barristers' chambers' issue.

Equally perennial are the vexed and complex issues which arise where there...