The IBA’s Arbitration Committee has announced it has detected a clerical error in Paragraph 3.1.5 of the Orange List of the revised IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration. The Orange List, in the Guideline’s system of red, orange and green lists, is the non-exhaustive list of issues that the (potential) arbitrator ought to disclose to the parties The Guidelines have now been corrected as follows: In Paragraph 3.1.5., the expression “on a related issue”, which was part of that paragraph in the 2004 Guidelines, was mistakenly deleted during the review process. It has been re-established so that paragraph 3.1.5 now reads as follows: Read More
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Costs in International Arbitration, IBA Conference, June 18/19, 2014 Munich
The IBA Arbitration Committee devots a one-day conference to Costs in International Arbitration. The programme will kick off with a keynote speech by Gerhard Wagner, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, on Costs of Arbitration Proceedings. Panels will then cover
- Advance on cost
- Security for cost
- Reimbursement and allocation of cost
- Third Party Funding
IBA Annual Litigation Forum: Challenges of Corporate Litigation in a Global Economy, Paris, April 15-17, 2015
This year’s IBA Litigation Forum will be held at the Maison du Barreau in Paris on April 15-17, 2015. The early registration discount expires on March 6, 2015. I plan to be there, and hope to meet some readers as well! The topics will include: Read More
IBA Annual Litigation Forum 2014, Montreal, May 14 – 16, 2014
This year’s IBA litigation conference will be held in Montreal on May 14 – 16, 2014, just over a month from now. As always, the IBA litigation committee, led by conference co-chairs Michael Hales and Ira Nishisato, have put together an interesting programme. There will be sessions on discovery in a cross-border context, on strategies for controlling the costs such discovery*, and on obtaining evidence abroad. And as always, I hope to learn, enjoy, meet old friends and make new ones. If you are in Montreal, let me know.
* Here’s my preferred strategy: Agree on the jurisdiction of the German courts. No discovery. Guaranteed…