Latham & Watkins review the decision in Halliburton v Chubb, where the English Court of Appeal held that an arbitrator who did not disclose subsequent appointments to related arbitration proceedings should have disclosed those subsequent appointments both as a matter of good practice and as a matter of law. The lack of disclosure did not however constitute sufficient grounds for the removal of the arbitrator under section 24(1)(a) of the Arbitration Act 1996 for justifiable doubts as to his impartiality.
Court Rules That Arbitrators Must Disclose Related Or Overlapping Appointments
