The World Bank’s arbitration court has agreed to hear a dispute between Churchill Mining and Indonesia over the revocation of four coal licenses in the Southeast Asian state.

With the first batch of applications for the ‘generic Top Level Domains’ recently launched, the scope for potential IP disputes over domain names remains potent, says Ben Rigby.

With four committees in the European Parliament now having rejected the EU’s controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, the measure seems likely to fall at the plenary stage, writes Ben Rigby.

The Hong Kong Law Reform Commission has handed down its long-awaited report on multi-party litigation, recommending cautious implementation of collective redress provisions.

As Riverview Law, which aims to provide fixed fee legal services, opens a New York office, the US is set to experience a small slice of the UK’s market for alternative business structures in law, writes Ben Rigby.

Last week’s launch of an international arbitration centre in Rwanda’s capital has opened up the possibility of corporate disputes in the country to be resolved independently and administered locally for the first time. Ben Rigby reports.

India has formally recognised Hong Kong and China as territories to which the New York Convention applies, thereby enhancing provisions for enforcement of arbitral awards stemming from proceedings before Chinese and Hong Kong hearings.  

With the news of a trophy partner hire – Lawson Caisley – from Hogan Lovells, Allen & Overy’s ambition to ramp up its dispute resolution practice has taken a significant leap forward, writes Ben Rigby.

The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) annual report 2011 has shown a spike in filings for referrals of cases to SIAC from UK parties in the past year. [w]

China is the world’s single largest exporter, but while the West has an insatiable appetite for Chinese consumer goods, demand for its home-grown alternative dispute resolution product has until now been largely overlooked. Aleks Vickovich reports.

In the discourse of international arbitration, Singapore is increasingly listed alongside London, Paris and Geneva as one of the world’s premier arbitral centres. At least some of the credit should be attributed to Tan Boon Teik SC, founding chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, who passed away this week at the age of 83. Aleks Vickovich reports.

Hogan Lovells partner David Taylor considers the dispute resolution challenges arising from the recently-opened new gTLD application window, the issue of potential cybersquatting at the second level and defensive strategies available.