A Roundup of recent UK Supreme Court cases relevant to London seated arbitrations and suggestions for in‐house lawyers

Recently, the UK Supreme Court issued two notable decisions in cases regarding arbitrations seated in London. One is about the governing law of an arbitration agreement (which has long been an area of complexity) and the other is about the duties of impartiality and disclosure of an arbitrator. In this article, we would like to overview these two decisions and we would also like to consider what in-house lawyers can do based on these two decisions.

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This article has been published in the May 2021 edition of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Journal by JCAA (The Japan Commercial Arbitration Association).


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