Welcome to this issue of the Global DR Legal Update, our quarterly newsletter which aims to bring together the most important global developments in litigation and arbitration.
In this issue:
- Asia Pacific
- Final report on third-party funding and class actions to be considered by Parliament
- New arrangement on reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments
- New HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules further enhance efficiency of arbitrations
- Code of practice for third-party funding of arbitration issued
- JCAA launch new and updated arbitration rules
- New infrastructure dispute protocol for Singapore
- EMEA
- EU Member States agree to terminate intra-EU BITs
- EU takes step towards collective redress mechanism
- Dutch Senate approves Netherlands Commercial Court
- Commercial Court revived to speed up litigation process
- UAE removes threat of criminal liability for arbitrators
- The Americas
- Argentine Supreme Court affirms limited grounds for review of arbitral awards
- Brazil approves creation of specialist cybercrime courts
- Canadian court refuses to certify "Dieselgate" securities class action
- US Supreme Court rejects “wholly groundless” exception to clauses delegating arbitrability
- California to permit non-Californian lawyers in International Arbitrations
- Global
- New UNCITRAL convention on enforcement of mediation settlements published
- Prague Rules on taking of evidence in international arbitration launched
- JAMS and SCIA form new panel focusing on technology and media disputes
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