Issue 34

March 2023

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In our latest issue of International Quarterly, we focus on concurrent delay and recent reforms to international arbitration laws.

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29 March 2023

Arbitration reform in Nigeria

In May of last year, the Nigerian Senate passed the Arbitration and Mediation Bill 2022 (the “2022 Bill”), representing the most significant reform of its arbitration law in over thirty years.

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29 March 2023

Concurrent delay – what is the right test?

Even relatively simple construction projects regularly suffer a whole host of delays to activities.

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29 March 2023

Enforcement of UAE judgments in England & Wales: recognition of reciprocity

A recent English judgment enforcing a UAE judgment may have paved the way for clarity on the enforcement of UAE judgments in England and Wales.

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29 March 2023

Updating the FIDIC Rainbow Suite: the 2022 changes

In November, at the 2022 FIDIC Users Conference, reprints of the 2017 Red, Yellow, and Silver Books were announced along with an accompanying updated FIDIC 2017 Contracts Guide.

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29 March 2023

Notify now or forever hold your peace – Notices of Dissatisfaction under FIDIC and NEC: Part 2

When I drafted my article for the previous edition of IQ I did not have a Part 2 in mind. Well, we have a saying in the UK, that you wait ages for one bus and then two or three come along together.

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29 March 2023

Privy Council on without prejudice privilege

The recent Privy Council case of A&A Mechanical Contractors and Company Ltd v Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad and Tobago) provides guidance on without prejudice privilege.

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