Court Finds Arbitrator’s Failure To Disclose Violated ‘Right To Fair Trial’

(May 24, 2021, 10:00 AM EDT) -- STRASBOURG, France — The European Court of Human Rights on May 20 ruled that an Italian company’s “right to a fair trial” was violated by the Italian government because a state-sponsored Roman arbitral tribunal that decided a dispute against the company in the early 2000s failed to elicit conflict-of-interest disclosures from one arbitrator who was actively representing the opposing party in litigation at the time of the arbitration....