Court judgments

Arbitration guidance

Licensing

UK

• Arbitration Costs General Licence INT/2025/5787748 (Notice)

Guidance on sanctions in arbitration

• International Association of Lawyers Economic Sanctions and Arbitration: A Practical Guide for Parties, Counsel and Arbitrators (September 2023)

International Chamber of Commerce

• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) ICC Institute of World Business Law Task Force ‘Sanctions: Basic Guide for SMEs’ (October 2022)

• ICC welcomes EU Regulation amendment increasing legal certainty for the business community (August 2022)

• Consolidated ICC Guidance on the use of sanctions clauses in trade finance-related instruments subject to ICC rules (March 2022)

• ICC Note to parties and arbitral tribunals on ICC compliance (September 2017)

• ICC, LCIA and Arbitration Institute, ‘The potential impact of the EU sanctions against Russia on international arbitration administered by EU-based institutions’ (June 2015)

London Court of International Arbitration

• LCIA Note for parties on sanctions, restrictive measures and ability to participate (August 2017)

• LCIA UK General Licence INT/2022/1552576 now replaced by Arbitration Costs General Licence INT/2025/5787748

Vienna International Arbitral Centre

• VIAC Sanctions & Arbitration

• Joint Statement of SCC, VIAC, FAI, DIS, CAM and Swiss Arbitration Centre on the EU’s 7th Sanctions Package (July 2022)

Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre

• HKIAC Policy on Proceedings Affected by Sanctions

Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute

• EU Sanctions

Russian Arbitration Association

• Review of Russian court practice on arbitration and cross-border litigation for the first half of 2024
• Review of Russian court practice on arbitration and cross-border litigation for the second half of 2024

Russian laws on arbitration

• Federal Law No. 382-FZ “On Arbitration (Arbitration Proceedings) in the Russian Federation
• Amended by Federal Law No. 531-FZ (December 2018)
• English translation by the Russian Arbitration Centre

There are four foreign arbitral institutions recognised as permanent arbitral institutions (PAI) under these laws:

• The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) – Notice;
• The Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) – Notice;
• The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – Notice; and
• The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) – Notice.

PAI status allows arbitral institutions to administer arbitration in Russia, per Federal Law No. 382-FZ “On Arbitration (Arbitration Proceedings).

EU court requests for preliminary rulings

What are requests for preliminary rulings?

Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) allows and sometimes requires courts in EU Member States to refer questions on the interpretation of EU law to the European Court of Justice, which are then applied by the referring court. These are called requests for preliminary rulings. In a sanctions context, the requests relate to the interpretation of EU sanctions regulations. The requests are composed of a series of questions which the referring court would like the ECJ to answer.

Sanctions-related requests for preliminary rulings