## [International Arbitration Newsletter - December 2018 | Institutional and Other News](/en_GB/new/international-arbitration-newsletter-december-2018-institutional-and-other-news)
# International Arbitration Newsletter - December 2018 | Institutional and Other News
12 / 21 / 2018
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**The most relevant arbitration institutional and other news from the global International Arbitration and ADR practice group at Garrigues.**
### ****INSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER NEWS****
**IBA issues updated Investment Treaty Arbitration Report**
The Arbitration Subcommittee on Investment Treaty Arbitration of the International Bar Association (IBA) has issued a report on “Consistency, efficiency and transparency in Investment Treaty Arbitration”. This report offers a snapshot of the state of investment arbitration in recent years, and an estimation for 2019, which is likely to be one of the most formative years for the field.
**GAR and CIArb launch updated arbitration seat index**
The Global Arbitration Review (GAR) and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) have recently jointly launched the new GAR-CIArb Seat Index.
The index aims to provide one-page summaries of the favourableness of individual arbitral seats assessed against a range of standard criteria. In its first version it covers six frequently used and well-established jurisdictions for arbitration: Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Singapore and Switzerland (including Geneva and Zurich).The summaries of those seats and concise lists can be found at .
### ****Team News****
**Appointments:**
- **Joe Tirado** (London) has been appointed to the Board of the new Tashkent International Arbitration Centre.
**Recent speaking engagements:**
- **Carlos de los Santos** (Madrid) spoke at the breakfast seminar hosted by BDO in Madrid (Hotel Hesperia) on Experts: cross-examination from three perspetives on 11 December 2018
- **Garrigues Chile team** spoke at YAF ICC Chile event: partner **Monica van der Schraft** and Principal Associate **Cristóbal Sarralde** (Chile office) spoke on the *Expedited ICC Proceedings* at the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) in Santiago on 23 November 2018, in an event hosted by the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the Commerce Chamber of Santiago de Chile.
- **Joe Tirado** (London) spoke on *Third Party Funding* at the IV ICC-CIAMEN Spanish Arbitration Forum in Madrid on 27 November 2018. Joe also spoke on *Ethics in International Investment Arbitration* at the Fifth International Conference for a Euro-Mediterranean Community of International Arbitration at an event joint organized by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Madrid Court of Arbitration (MCA) and the Ministry of Justice of Spain in Madrid on 19 November 2018.
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