Organisation: SCC Arbitration Institute
SCC launches express dispute resolution tool
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has launched the “SCC Express,” a new tool in which parties can receive a legal assessment of their dispute for a fixed fee in three weeks.
05 August 2021
SCC award upheld in fintech dispute
The Svea Court of Appeal has upheld an SCC award in a dispute over an e-identification system for mobile phones, finding that the challenge could be dismissed as manifestly unfounded without the need to notify the counterparty.
12 July 2019
SCC welcomes new board members
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has announced the addition of three new members to its board chaired by Kaj Hobér, and the appointment of two existing members as vice chairs.
25 October 2018
Energy Charter Treaty under fire in NGO report
The authors of Profiting From Injustice, a widely circulated attack on the investor-state dispute settlement system, have released a new report criticising the Energy Charter Treaty, which they say grants corporations the power to obstruct the transition from “climate-wrecking” fossil fuels to renewable energy.
13 June 2018
SCC releases caseload statistics
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has released its annual caseload statistics, reporting a slight downturn in the number of international arbitrations registered last year but a growth in domestic disputes.
28 March 2018
SCC publishes policy on appointing arbitrators
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has revealed its policy on appointing arbitrators – 11 years after it was first introduced.
20 November 2017
SCC to provide reasons for challenges
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce is to provide reasons for its decisions regarding challenges to arbitrators from the start of next year, it has been announced.
13 November 2017
Pugachev interim measures award published
In the wake of a high-profile English court ruling that trusts set up in the names of his family members were “shams”, more details have emerged of fugitive Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev’s largely unsuccessful bid to have civil and criminal proceedings against him worldwide suspended by order of an investment treaty tribunal.
03 November 2017
Swedish institute welcomes new board members
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has welcomed five new members to its board from France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the UK.
24 October 2017