Reed Executive Plc and anr v Reed Business Information Ltd

02 August 2004

Dispatch

Issue 50

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The Court of Appeal applied the Halsey principals in deciding whether to penalise RBI on costs for declining to make use of the Court of Appeal’s mediation scheme. Click to download PDF

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Mediation: is it ever reasonable to decline a request to mediate?

Jeremy Glover looks at the question - Mediation: is it ever reasonable to decline a request to mediate?

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What can you do if a Responding Party in an arbitration refuses to pay its share of the Advance on Costs?

Failure by a party to pay its share of an advance on arbitration costs may amount to a breach of the arbitration agreement, but it will not necessarily be repudiatory. Where the applicable arbitral rules provide mechanisms to allow the arbitration to proceed, non‑payment alone is unlikely to render the arbitration agreement inoperative.

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