A consultation by the Law Commision is underway to determine wheter it is necessary to tweak the English Arbitration Act 1996. So far, the consultation responses largery have beenk along the lines expected, albeit with diverging views expressed on some proposals, and widepread agreement on others such as the summary procedure proposal has, however, been made by 31 of 118 consultees and has just made it way into the Second Consultation Paper published in March 2023.
This is on the question whether the decision of the Supreme in Enka ve Sanayi AS v OOO ” Insurance Company Chubb” (2020) 2 Lloyd’s Rep 449 should be allowed to stand. The issue is here considered by Caroline Thomas, Professor Kabbir Duggal and Amanda Lee.
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Dr. Kabir Duggal
Arbitration and Mediation Panelist at BIAMC
Senior International Arbitration Advisor at Arnold and Porter/Columbia Law School
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