Commercial Arbitration
A cargo of Ukrainian corn never shipped. A war disrupted the inspection regime that let grain leave the Black Sea. In ADM Industries Centers Ltd (trading as ADM Israel) v Inerco Trade SA [2026] EWHC 1873 (Comm), an English judge just delivered a clean lesson on how courts shouldn'
Commercial Arbitration
There is a recurring irony in international arbitration: parties spend years litigating complex commercial merits, only to stumble over fundamental procedural mechanics once the final award is issued. A recent decision by The Hague Court of Appeal (ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2026:2472) offers a sharp, cautionary case study in procedural
Commercial Arbitration
How much jurisdictional error is enough to stop an arbitration? One of the less glamorous — but more consequential — questions in arbitration is not simply who decides jurisdiction, but when a court should be allowed to intervene. A recent judgment of the Supreme Court of India raises that question in an