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China approved for India arbitration work

Hong Kong could be set to challenge Singapore's dominance as a venue for India-related arbitration after the Indian Government said it will recognise arbitral awards made in mainland China and Hong Kong.
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Nabarro and K&L among advisers as Farepak directors trial gets underway

DAC Beachcroft, Nabarro and K&L Gates are among a legal line-up advising on the trial of a group of Farepak directors over the company's 2006 collapse, which began in the High Court today (24 May). K&L Gates' London senior partner Michael Johns is among the former directors appearing in the Chancery Division today over their role in the collapse of the UK Christmas savings company five and a half years ago.
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Courting publicity? The Supreme Court's open door policy

"Three things in particular tend to surprise new visitors to the three-year-old Supreme Court. The first is that there are no secret tunnels to Parliament, which comes as a great disappointment to many school groups. The second is that the Justices sit on the same level as the rest of the court, rather than on a raised platform. And the third is that the best rooms in the house are reserved for the lawyers' meeting spaces..."
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Bar Council elects 2 Bedford Row silk to succeed Todd as chairman

Maura McGowan QC has been elected as the Bar Council's next chairman, with the criminal silk set to succeed current chair Michael Todd QC of Erskine Chambers at the end of the year. McGowan, who is currently vice chairman, was elected in an uncontested vote. She will take up the new role on 1 January next year.
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RPC signs up Reed Smith partner for bank litigation team

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has grown its City banking litigation team with the hire of Reed Smith partner Simon Hart. Hart joins RPC after seven years as a partner at Reed Smith. Prior to his move to the US outfit he spent time at legacy firm Wilde Sapte, now part of SNR Denton.
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DLA hires four-partner Dewey US team as IP litigation group forms new firm

DLA Piper has confirmed the hire of a four-partner corporate and litigation team from Dewey & LeBoeuf in New York, as the embattled US firm's Northern California intellectual property (IP) litigation group breaks away to form a new boutique. The four-partner group joining DLA includes corporate partner Berge Setrakian and Margaret Civetta, the former managing partner of Dewey's Madrid office and co-managing partner of the firm's Paris office, as well as litigators Kevin Walsh and Gassan Baloul.
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In depth: arbitration

The biggest issues in the global arbitration market, including whether arbitration evolve fast enough to seize its global moment
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International Edition

The clawback - can arbitration help Greek bondholders gain redress?

Cynics would say that the legal sharks have already started circling the fall-out from the Greek sovereign debt restructuring. One law firm is reported to be already seeking German private investors in Greek bonds to pursue a class action-style investment treaty arbitration against Greece.
6 minute read

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Industrial scale - can arbitration evolve fast enough to seize its global moment?

"It's very easy for clients and lawyers to say in the abstract that they want to make arbitration more efficient. But when it comes to your own case and it's a bet-the-company situation, does a client want to take all the procedural points open to it in mounting its defence, or does it want to prioritise efficiency?"
15 minute read

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Arbitration's promised land - why arbitration must evolve to continue its success story

Freshfields' Constantine Partasides and Patrick Taylor argue arbitration must evolve if it is to fulfil its promise as the first choice to resolve global business disputes
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