Overview

Ashurst rounds up the latest developments in arbitration, including:

- The revised UNCITRAL rules set to come into force on 15 August 2010;

- How the Singapore International Arbitration Centre has issued new procedural rules effective from 1 July 2010;

- New draft legislation to reform Spanish arbitration law;

- New IBA rules on the taking of evidence in international arbitration;

- How a recent decision of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal raises issues generally concerning the drafting of waiver of state immunity clauses;

- How the decision in Anglian Water Services v Laing O'Rourke Utilities highlights the problems that can arise when parties include, in a contract providing for arbitration, contractual provision for service of communications;

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