The people behind the images.

Archive photographs

Prestige: Bahamas Maritime Authority, MV Prestige, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Used on the homepage and Prestige article; cropped to fit card layouts. The photograph is historical and predates the sinking.

Prestige clean-up: Adela Leiro, S-vicente2-Prestige oil spill, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Used in the linked BITS visual report. Archive photograph; cropped there.

UK Supreme Court building: Christine Smith, Middlesex Guildhall (cropped), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Used as an archive location image. The 2023 Nigeria v P&ID fraud findings were made in the High Court, not in this building. Any adapted crop remains available under the stated ShareAlike licence.

Royal Courts of Justice: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net), The Royal Courts of Justice, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Archive location photograph; resized and cropped for cards. Adapted image versions remain under the same licence.

Team & brand

Aabhas Pareek’s portrait was supplied by Aabhas. The Arbitration BITS wordmark was supplied directly by Aabhas. The original letter shapes and red underline are preserved, with a reversed light version used on the navy footer. Thomais Baltzi’s profile currently uses a typographic monogram, not a photographic likeness.

Interviews

The Aram Aghababyan portrait is a display crop of the original BITS Spotlight cover. The original 13-page interview, credited to Saudamini Amare and Alifiya Olia, was published by Arbitration BITS on 2 May 2025. Copyright © 2025 ArbitrationBITS. Original publication.

Editorial illustrations

The reform, emergency-arbitration, tribunal-secretary, AI and short-video graphics were created for this site. They are illustrations, not documentary evidence.

Type

DM Sans and Instrument Serif are self-hosted from the Google Fonts collection. Their font software is distributed under the SIL Open Font License; the licence is included with the site assets.