We heard John A. Kimbell KC and Ruth Hosking speak at the IISTL Annual Colloquium 2023.

Commercial disputes are always complex and time-consuming: and in practice their most complex and time-consuming aspect often concerns not the law but remedies and dispute resolution. This Colloquium discussed dispute resolution and arbitration law in a post-Brexit landscape.

Discussion ranged freely over national, international, and EU legal dimensions, and in every case were led by panels of top professional and academic experts.

Topics discussed were very varied, but included:

• Consent to arbitration
• Digitalisation of arbitration
• Law reform and arbitration
• Challenges to arbitral awards
• Mediation
• Digitalisation and compulsory ADR
• ADR in Pax claims in shipping and aviation
• Applicable law in arbitration disputes
• Anti suit injunctions
• Forum non-convenience and stay of proceedings
• Service of jurisdiction in the light of updates to CPD rules
• The EU and Jurisdiction: shipping's inclusion in the ETS; direct action provisions and UK insurers
• Hague Judgments Convention 2019
• Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
• Rome Regulations on choice of law

Speakers:

• Masood Ahmed: Associate Professor, Leicester University
• Professor Simon Baughen: Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University
• Mr Michael Biltoo: Partner, Kennedys
• Sir William Blair: 3VB, Arbitrator and former Judge of London’s Commercial Court (tbc)
• Ruth Hosking: Barrister and Arbitrator, Quadrant Chambers, London
• John A. Kimbell KC: Quadrant Chambers, London
• Monica Kohli: Senior Lawyer, Gard (UK), London
• Professor George Leloudas: Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University
• Dr Aygun Mammadzada: Lecturer, Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University
• Karen Maxwell: Barrister and Arbitrator, Twenty Essex, London
• Professor Francesco Munari: University of Genova, Italy
• Brian Perrott: Partner, HFW, London
• Professor Marta Pertegas Sender (M.): Maastricht University
• Richard Sarll: Barrister, 7KBW, London
• David Steward: Arbitrator & Mediator, 10 Fleet Street, President of LMAA, London
• Professor Andrew Tettenborn: Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University
• Daniel Wand : Barrister, 4KBW, London
• Dr Patricia Živković: Lecturer in Law, University of Aberdeen