2 May 2021
Arbitrator Bias: Have Halliburton and Sun Yang taught us what’s at stake for ADR?
Bernando Cartoni addresses the topic of arbitrator’s bias by considering two recent and landmark decisions.
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Category: Europe
Announcements, activities and updates from the Swiss Chinese Law Association.
28 April 2021
How the EU’s Trade Secret Protection Standards impact drafting and negotiating non-disclosure agreements
All non-disclosure clauses that are an integral part of another contract involving an EU-based party must now be examined in the light of EU…
26 April 2021
Bitcoin Bid: Are China and NATO countries diverging on cryptocurrencies?
The US, Turkey and China have stepped in to address cryptocurrencies in very different ways in the past few years.
23 March 2021
Legal Tech is Shaking up Germany’s Consumer Rights Enforcement: What will new legislation mean for the sector?
Introduction After many years of obscurity, the legal tech market is now booming and is trying to take over parts of the legal market.…
15 March 2021
Enforcing ADR Escalation Clauses in the UK: The latest developments
The introduction of the European Union Cross Border Mediation Directive (2008/52/EC) has helped to augment mediation’s status as a means of resolving international disputes…
28 February 2021
Covid Could Expose a War of All against All: Can European unity cope?
On 30 September, 2020 the European Commission issued the 2020 Rule of Law Report which can be summarized in the words of the President…
8 February 2021
The EU-China Investment Agreement: Reality or fiction?
On 30 December 2020, the EU announced that a new deal is being cut with China after many years of tough negotiations. It was…
29 November 2020
The ECJ has declared the basis for data export to the USA ineffective: What does it mean for the future?
The European Court of Justice (ECJ, Case C-311/18) has declared the EU-US agreement on the so-called Privacy Shield invalid. This agreement regulates the conditions…
29 November 2020
Thermal cameras: Does GDPR apply during the pandemic?
The most common method for measuring body temperature to stop the spread of Covid -19 has been a standard thermometer. However, due to the virus’s…
29 November 2020
Greece now has a functioning mediation law: This is what it means for lawyers
30 November 2019 On this date, Greece’s Law 4640/2019 was passed. This was almost a decade after the first appearance of the Institution of…