Globalization and social evolution have transformed organizations, especially in managing diverse and multigenerational workforces. Workplace civility, defined by respectful,

inclusive, and fair interactions, has become essential for sustaining talent and enhancing competitiveness. [...]

AbstractMandatory arbitration agreements in consumer and employment contracts have become a procedural trap: collective redress for vulnerable claimants crumbles as they are

left stranded between barred class/representative actions and prohibitively expensive individual arbitration. [...]

AbstractSuccessful challenges to arbitral awards based on breaches of natural justice are rare. Violations of natural justice triggered by arbitral tribunals copying the parties’

submissions when drafting awards are even more uncommon. While ‘copying and pasting’ from submissions, evidence, and procedural orders for efficiency purposes [...]

ABSTRACTThis paper was initially presented orally as the keynote address of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Canada Branch, programme at Canada Arbitration Week in Toronto

on 17 October 2023. The address explores how sitting arbitrators shall respond when a party, or persons evidently aligned with a party, make use of bespoke websites [...]

AbstractIn Hyalroute Communication Group Limited v Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited [2025] HKCFI 2417, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance refused to

grant an anti-suit injunction to restrain Cayman winding-up proceedings where the underlying dispute is subject to an arbitration agreement in favour of HKIAC arbitration. [...]

AbstractThe note considers a recent decision of the English High Court on a challenge to an arbitration award under section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996. The decision reaffirms

judicial respect for arbitral awards and discourages challenges for mere infelicities of language. [...]

In law schools across the country, law students are taught, early on in their studies, that the equitable doctrine of promissory estoppel is a shield, not a sword.11 In other

words, it can only be used as a defence to a claim and not to establish a cause of action. [...]

AbstractThis article examines the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in international arbitration and argues that efficiency without engagement threatens the foundations

of legal judgment. Drawing on cognitive load theory, it distinguishes between extraneous, intrinsic, and germane cognitive load. [...]

AbstractThis case comment examines P v D ([2019] EWHC 1277 (Comm)), in which the English Commercial Court set aside an arbitral award under section 68(2)(a) of the Arbitration

Act 1996—on the ground that the tribunal had breached its duty of procedural fairness under section 33—by making adverse credibility findings against a witness [...]

AbstractIn investment-treaty arbitrations, strong evidence of investor misconduct is like dynamite for States: it can destroy investors’ claims. For this reason, allegations

of investor misconduct are frequently made in investment-treaty arbitrations. Most States, however, fire blanks with these attempts to blow up investors’ claims. [...]