It is with pleasure that we introduce a heretofore unseen quantity in the arbitration community: published digests of reasoned arbitral challenge decisions. When deciding a challenge to an arbitrator, the member or members of the LCIA Court presiding over the challenge write a reasoned decision that is conveyed to the parties in question. The LCIA is the only arbitral institution that provides such reasoned decisions to the parties.1 On 5 May 2006, Geoff Nicholas and Constantine Partasides presented a report to a joint meeting of the LCIA Court and Board at Tylney Hall proposing to publish the LCIA Court's challenge decisions. The report observed that the publication of the ‘wealth of LCIA learning and guidance on independence and impartiality’ would make ‘a unique contribution’ to fulfilling the arbitration community's need for a greater understanding of the parameters of arbitrator independence and impartiality.2 Messrs Nicholas and Partasides's argument was persuasive, and the LCIA voted to publish these decisions. The decisions, the LCIA decided, would be printed in the form of abstracts. The LCIA Secretariat shordy thereafter set off to create these abstracts. The fruits of the LCIA Secretariat's efforts are the digests published here. A digest is provided for each of the over thirty arbitrator challenges that have been decided to date by the LCIA Court. The Court's challenge decisions are often lengthy and are complete with a treatment of the facts of the challenge, the governing contractual and legal standards of independence and impartiality, and a reasoned application of the law to the facts of the challenge. The digests are sanitized editions of the challenge decisions that protect the confidentiality of the parties and the arbitrators, and are redacted to make the length of the decisions manageable, without compromising the reasoning of the decisions. The digests include, with …