Global Arbitration Review Publishes Williams and Glaysher Article on LCIA’s New Arbitration Rules

Global Arbitration Review has published the article “The new LCIA rules – worth the wait?” written by Akin Gump partner Justin Williams and counsel James Glaysher, both members of the firm’s international arbitration and dispute resolution practice. The article examines new arbitration rules from the London Court of International Arbitration that go into effect on October 1.

Williams and Glaysher write that the previous rules, issued in 2014, “gave arbitrators a general power to make any procedural order they considered appropriate with regard to the fair, efficient and expeditious conduct of the arbitration.” The new rules, they note, go into further detail as to what the general power includes, such as “limiting the length of, or dispensing with, any written statements; limiting the written and oral testimony of any witness; [and] deciding the stage of the arbitration at which any issue or issues shall be determined.”

To read the article in its entirety, please click here.

Williams and Glaysher, along with counsel Jenny Arlington, also co-authored an Akin Gump client alert on this topic. Click here to read “Updated LCIA Arbitration Rules (2020) Issued.”