Grounds for disqualification of Mr Aynès emerged years after the challenged decision

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Court sees no evidence of long-standing prejudice by Mr Poncet, also considering his prior support of Muslim community

Grounds for challenge must have existed at the time of the challenged decision

Court refers to IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest to assess lack of impartiality and independence, stressing importance of “duty of curiosity”

Court weighs in on relevance of decision on disqualification to ground of improper constitution of tribunal

Adverse outcome of decision is sufficient to establish standing

Incomplete disclosure of law firm’s role in other ICC case forces Mr Aynès to step down from his role as tribunal chair

Poncet disqualified over TV comments on Islamic “bigotry”

ICC Court upholds objection to arbitrator appointment

Challenge to full tribunal is rejected by ICC Court

ICC Court finds that Messrs. Gaitskell and von Wobeser failed to timely disclose that they were involved in another arbitration with APC’s counsels, but this is insufficient to warrant their disqualification

ICC rejects challenge to the arbitral tribunal, seeing no duty for the tribunal to ensure the parties’ agreement on a hearing date

ICC Court notes that arbitrator challenges based on procedural decisions are rarely upheld; blatant errors or a violation of the right to be heard is required

ICC rejects challenge to tribunal chair during the arbitration

Co-arbitrator resigns over law firm’s links with funder

Arbitration was put back on track before new tribunal, but quickly ran into funding difficulties

Tribunal composition changed as Zambian High Court tried to stop the proceedings

ICC Court finds that, prima facie, an agreement to arbitrate the dispute may exist; parties agree on bifurcation

ICC co-arbitrators cannot share the nationality of any of the parties in treaty-based cases

Syria initially fails to participate; two arbitrators are replaced

Bias allegations invite the Court to engage in “rank speculation”

Background: Downstream oil joint-venture leads to ICC claims

Arbitrator is disqualified over asymmetry of information resulting from involvement in overlapping case

ICC declines to accept invokation of arbitration agreement by third party

Claimant’s failure to act caused delays in tribunal constitution

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