Episode 9 – Lindy Patterson QC and Matthew Harley

Lindy Patterson QC and Matthew Harley

Lindy Patterson QC catches up with Matthew Harley, Senior Counsel at DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre based in Dubai. In a wide-ranging conversation with personal reflections of Matthew’s experience in Dubai, the two discuss the initial slowdown in arbitration work followed by the increase in emergency arbitrations and urgent applications. They chat about how the pandemic might affect work more broadly (when compared to the financial crisis in 2008/09) and the impact of virtual hearings, whether they currently work as well as they could and whether they might give rise to difficulties when it comes to enforcing arbitral awards.