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The London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation (LCAM) is part of the fabric of London’s world-beating legal services landscape and proudly facilitates UK trade and investment around the world. We are delighted to be partnering with the Ministry of Justice Legal is...

LCAM were delighted to have been invited to present to the ASK association of Arbitration Professional Support Lawyers yesterday, a group facilitated by the Practical Law Arbitration team. The panel session covered the distinctive features of LCAM arbitration, with...

By early March 2020, it was clear that Covid-19 was going to affect mediation and all other business meetings. I completed face-to-face mediations at offices where precautionary measures were already in place - then came lockdown. Like other mediators, I grappled with...

Seismic shift is probably the best way to describe how the practice of mediation changed in 2020. Before Covid, Mediation was fundamentally seen as a face-to-face activity. Like many mediators, I could point to a few cases where some participants had joined by video...

The pandemic has affected us all but whatever deprivations we have each suffered, the pandemic has changed, and possibly for the better, arbitration procedure. The pandemic has shown the arbitration community that life can go on much as it did before albeit with...

The last year has been extraordinary. However, the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines gives fresh hope that there may soon be a transition to a new state of affairs (a “new normal”, as it is often called). What that will look like is difficult to see, especially because...

Past: The early push for mediation Over the years, the English judiciary has increasingly encouraged parties to settle their disputes via alternative dispute resolution ("ADR"). In 1994, Lord Woolf was appointed to find a solution capable of reducing the cost, delay...

The efficient and effective resolution of a dispute is frequently down to who the arbitrator or arbitrators are determining the dispute. The Composition of the Arbitral Tribunal is set out in Articles 11 to 14 of the LCAM Arbitration Rules (the Rules) and Article 7 of...

After a dispute arises and a business seeks legal advice, one of the first questions is usually “how much is this going to cost me?”. Pursuing or defending a claim in arbitration proceedings is a big financial risk for companies and effective cost management is...

The London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation (“LCAM”) has been founded under the auspices of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (“LCCI”), the capital’s largest independent business network and business support organisation, to provide efficient, innovative...