The 2025 English Arbitration Act and Arbitration in Latin America

Date: Thursday 04 December, 2025
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Location: Gatehouse Chambers, Gray's Inn, 1 Lady Hale Gate, London WC1X 8BS

This event will be conducted in Spanish.

The aim of this event is to discuss the review of arbitration legislation in various Latin American jurisdictions through the lenses of the English experience reviewing the 1996 Arbitration Act. The panel will address salient topics addressed by the 2025 Arbitration Act and consider whether similar amendments would be appropriate and useful in the selected Latin American jurisdictions.  

Overall, this event offers an opportunity to reflect on the modernisation of arbitration legislation, identifying global issues and discussing how regional idiosyncrasies might motivate different responses to similar phenomena.

Topics Include:

  • Arbitrators' duty to disclose

  • Law governing arbitration agreements

  • Summary disposition by the arbitral tribunal 

  • Level of review of arbitral decisions on jurisdiction by national courts (annulment and recognition & enforcement)

Speakers:

To be confirmed

Gatehouse Chambers, Gray's Inn, 1 Lady Hale Gate, London WC1X 8BS

Hosted by:

  • Spanish and Latin American Arbitration Society