The Arbitration Station

Sadia talks to Anthony Charlton, a chartered forensic accountant and leading quantum/valuation expert witness, about what makes expert evidence persuasive and how counsel can get the best from their experts. Anthony shares insights on maintaining independence and on what it takes to become a great expert [TIME 6:44].For Happy Fun Time, Sadia and Brian discuss “How the Busiest People Find Joy”, a Harvard Business Review article by Leslie Perlow et al. They give us some practical micro-joys busy lawyers can actually use [TIME 48:32]. Season 8 Episode 6 - Happiness Is an Inside Job

Brian opens with a sit-down interview featuring Kevin Nash, the LCIA’s new Director-General, for an inside look at where the institution, and London as a seat, are heading. Kevin shares his roadmap for updating the LCIA Rules, harnessing technology, and broadening the caseload beyond its traditional strongholds, while reflecting on why he believes London remains arbitration’s global crossroads [TIME 07:22]. In Happy Fun Time, Brian and Sadia park the pleadings and talk real life. How to keep friendships, partners, and family thriving when your calendar is packed with filings, flights, and frantic hearing prep? From setting boundaries to small rituals that signal you’re truly off-duty, they offer candid, battle-tested tips for cultivating “life beyond the hearings” [TIME 32:47]. Season 8 Episode 5 - Life Beyond the Hearings

No Happy Fun Time this week, just a deep-dive. Brian sits down with Dimitriy Mednikov, an international-arbitration specialist at Habib Al Mulla & Partners in Dubai, together they decode the UAE’s three-tier system: on-shore courts, the DIFC, and the ADGM [TIME 01:56]. Expect candid takes on why the DIFC often serves as a “conduit” for enforcing foreign awards and on how ADGM’s wholesale adoption of English statutes (contrasted with the DIFC’s more hybrid approach) informs counsel strategy. Season 8 Episode 4 - The Desert Seats

Brian and Sadia kick things off with Ayse Yazır ACII of Bench Walk Advisors for a beginner-friendly masterclass on third-party funding: what it is, why you might want it, and how to land it without losing control of your case [TIME 07:57]. In Happy Fun Time, the co-hosts turn a critical eye to The Economist’s “Conference Survival Handbook,” separating smart advice from questionable hacks and sharing their own battle-tested tips for thriving on the arbitration-conference circuit [TIME 44:41]. Funding 101

Brian kicks things off by welcoming David Hunt of Boies Schiller Flexner to unpack the ever-spicier topic of anti-suit injunctions, using the UK Supreme Court’s decision in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC as a springboard [TIME 13:18]. They explore how the case intersects with the proposed revisions to the Arbitration Act 1996, revisit Enka v Chubb, and debate whether the English courts’ approach is evolving. If anti-suit injunctions and jurisdictional gateways are your thing, this one’s for you.For Happy Fun Time, Sadia is joined once again by arbitration-lawyer-turned-productivity-guru, coach Jon Passaro [TIME 39:52]. Jon breaks down how a business plan can keep a career on track, sharing a examples listeners can use for their own practice. Season 8 Episode 2