29 January, 2016
The Permanent Court of Arbitration has announced that a five-person Arbitral Tribunal has been constituted under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, in relation to the case involving two Italian marines who have been accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the coast of India in February 2012. Arbitral proceedings were commenced by Italy on 26 June 2015, and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has asked India to suspend legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of India, which had itself decided in 2013 that it had jurisdiction to hear the matter.
The arbitral tribunal will be chaired by Vladimir Golitsyn of Russia, and will also be constituted by P Chandrasekhar Rao (India), Francesco Francioni (Italy), Jin-Hyun Paik (South Korea) and Patrick Robinson (Jamaica).
For further information, please contact:
Nicholas Peacock, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
nicholas.peacock@hsf.com
