Arbitration, Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Arbitrators, Expedited arbitration, ICC Arbitration, ICC Rules, Party autonomy, Procedure

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Over the past few decades, responding to the need to control the growing costs and time of arbitration proceedings, the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC Court”) has continuously sought to achieve greater efficiency of the ICC arbitration proceedings (examples of such efforts can be found on the links available…

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1 September 2016 marks the key date in the long-awaited Russian arbitration law reform, publicly announced by the President of the Russian Federation already in 2013. Since then, the Russian arbitration law reform has been in the public eye attracting significant publicity (previous blog posts on this can be read: here, here, here, and here)….

Ad hoc arbitration, Arbitration, Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Awards, Arbitration Proceedings, Commercial Arbitration, Enforcement, Georgia, kompetenz-kompetenz, Set aside an arbitral award

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In 2009, Georgia adopted a new Law on Arbitration (“Law on Arbitration”) based on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration with amendments as adopted in 2006 (“Model Law”). Shortly thereafter, Mr. Michael Wietzorek commented on the implementation of the new law on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog (here) and qualified this as a “significant…