Disputes Digest 2024
Welcome to the third annual Disputes Digest, in which we collate our 2024 global HFW Litigation and International Arbitration publications.
This edition includes updates from across our Disputes jurisdictions, including England and Wales, BVI, AsiaPac, and the Middle East.
As one of the world’s largest and most active Disputes practices, litigation is in our DNA at HFW. We have specialist Disputes lawyers in offices across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and AsiaPac, and have continued to ramp up growth across our Disputes network in 2024 with a series of senior hires. We are recognised in all of the major directories, by Chambers UK 2025 as a “leading global Disputes firm” and by the Times Best Law Firms 2025 as one of the UK’s top commercial Disputes practices. This is backed up by independent data from litigation analytics platform Solomonic, and also The Lawyer’s Tracker, which shows that we have handled more commercial litigation in the English High Court than any other firm over several years.
Similarly, in relation to International Arbitration- we are major users of all of the main international Institutions. Our Disputes lawyers and firmwide reputation for depth and breadth in IA are recognised by all of the key IA directories, including GAR 100.
The firm is also one of the founding members and signatories of both the Greener Litigation Pledge, and Greener Arbitration Campaign – legal industry initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of dispute resolution, and continues to be represented on the Pledge’s Steering Committee. We are also signatories of the Equal Representation in Arbitration, and work to ensure fairer representation of women in arbitration.
We hope you enjoy reading this Digest, please contact the authors, or your usual HFW contact, if you wish to discuss any of the articles.
In the recent case of UniCredit Bank GmbH (Claimant) v RusChemAlliance LLC (Defendant), and in what is believed to be the first time that the UK …
Climate change litigation is impacting businesses and governments alike. In this article we discuss two key decisions where States were found to …
In this article we review the English court judgment in CCP Graduate School L…
This briefing provides an overview of the 2019 Hague Convention and the impact it will have on the reciprocal cross-border enforcement of English …
Hong Kong further benefits from its status as a Special Administrative Region…
In CF v SHK and S Listco the Hong Kong Court held that a “no set-off” clause precluded the award debtor from seeking to set-off a connected…
The Supreme Court settles the long-running litigation which raised the question whether a party affected by a force majeure event …
As anyone involved in Brazilian disputes will know, the accrual of interest and use of monetary correction on Brazilian claims has the capacity to …
HFW acts for liquidator in high-profile insolvency claims in the DIFC Courts,…
In a recent judgment that will have been welcomed by financial institutions dealing with legacy LIBOR contracts and parties seeking to …
In the recent decision of Asertis Ltd v Lewis Barry Bloch, the High Court scrutinised the adequacy of an after-the-event …
A recent decision by the Singapore Court of Appeal offers rare insight into how a successful early dismissal application may be treated by …
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the JCPC) recently handed down a landmark decision dealing with a tension …
On 20 December 2023, it was publicly announced that Abu Dhabi Chamber of Comm…
The new the Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre (arbitrateAD) has publ…
There followed a series of applications for disclosure by Nigeria, in various…
In a carefully reasoned judgment1 (Judgment) handed down in April this year, the Swiss Supreme Court …
Australia’s proportionate liability regime enables a judicial body to apportion liability across multiple wrongdoers to a dispute, such that each …
2024 has been an important year for arbitration in Paris, marked by a landmark court decision concerned with bias …
Dubai has seen some key developments in recent years that have had a positive impact on arbitration in the region …
In the September 2023 edition of the Bulletin we wrote about reforms to the English Arbitration Act identified by the Law Commission’s …
The Dispute Resolution Statistics of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) always make for interesting reading …
On July 9 2024, Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Arbitration (Domestic) Act 2024 (Domestic Arbitration Act) and Arbitration (International) Act 2024 ….
In Cox and Kings Ltd. v. SAP India Pvt. Ltd., the Indian Supreme Court upheld…
The Hong Kong Court has clarified the proper approach when analysing dispute …
2023 has been an exciting year of arbitration in Hong Kong.
Clive Palmer is a prominent mining magnate and self-described “proud Australian”. How then is his company pursuing an arbitration against …
n the case of Reliance Infrastructure Limited v Shanghai Electric Group Co Ltd 2024 SGHC (I) 3, which involved an application to set aside …
In Australia, applications for the production of documents or the provision of evidence by third parties to an arbitration are usually decided …
The English courts have a long history of supporting arbitration proceedings, including in securing attendance of witnesses and production of …
The Law Commission’s Review of the 1996 English Arbitration Act is intended to modernise arbitration laws in England and Wales.
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