Case Management

Appointment of arbitrators, arbitration rules, Case Management, Dissenting opinions, Hungary, Remote hearings

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The Permanent Arbitration Court attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (The Hungarian Commercial Arbitration Court or ‘HCAC’) has recently adopted its revised rules of proceedings that went into effect on 31 December 2022. This development is particularly significant for the Hungarian arbitration landscape given that HCAC has exclusive competence over commercial, financial…

Case Management, China, Enforcement, HK Arbitration Week, HKIAC, Hong Kong, Interim measures, International Commercial Courts, Interviews with Our Editors

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This August, Dr. Mariel Dimsey assumed the position of HKIAC Secretary-General, succeeding Ms. Sarah Grimmer, who served in the position for six years. Mariel brings with her extensive, 15-years’ experience as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitration, spanning various jurisdictions and legal traditions. Mariel takes the helm during an exciting period at HKIAC and for…

Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Case Management, Ecuador, Institutional Arbitration, Interview of our editors, Interviews with Our Editors, Latin America, Uncategorized

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Welcome to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, Ms. Vera!  We are grateful for this opportunity to learn more about the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Ecuadorian-American Chamber of ‎Commerce (CAM-AMCHAM Ecuador)‎, and its administration of complex disputes, as well as about the attractiveness of Quito as a seat for international arbitration.  To start, can…

Case Management, England, Insolvency, International arbitration

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Insolvency-related claims arising from contracts containing arbitration clauses continue to culminate in intriguing cases before the England and Wales High Court (a previous post on the Blog analysed the Riverrock Securities Limited v International Bank of St Petersburg (Joint Stock Company) [2020] EWHC 2483 (Comm)). In a recent case titled The Deposit Guarantee Fund for…

Arbitration Act, Case Management, China, HK Arbitration Week, HKIAC, Interim measures, Interviews with Our Editors, Third party funding, Tribunal Secretary

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Sarah has been HKIAC Secretary-General since September 2016. During her time at the helm, the HKIAC has, among other actions, released its 2018 Administered Arbitration Rules, overseen the changes arising from the 2019 arrangement between Mainland China and Hong Kong regarding interim measures for arbitration (“Interim Measures Arrangement”), became the first foreign arbitral institution to…

Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Brazil, Case Management, Commercial Arbitration, Institutional Arbitration, Interview of our editors, Interviews with Our Editors, Latin America

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Welcome to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, Ms. Coelho!  We are grateful for this opportunity to learn more about the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC), and its administration of complex disputes, as well as about the attractiveness of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro as seats for international arbitration. …

Case Management, COVID-19, Efficiency, ICC, ICC Guidance Note, ODR, Virtual hearings

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ArbitralWomen

“Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed”…and “walking away from something brings you towards it” (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll). The current worldwide outbreak forced by Covid-19 has…

ADR, Arbitration Industry, Arbitration institution, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Belt Road Initiative, Case Management, China, CIETAC, Conciliation, Domain Names, Hong Kong, Interim measures, Interviews with Our Editors, Jurisdictional challenge, Macau, Mediation, Taiwan, Tribunal Secretary

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CIETAC Hong Kong Arbitration Center

Dr. Li Hu is Deputy Secretary-General of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (“CIETAC”), Vice Chairman of China Maritime Arbitration Commission, and also Board Member of the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. He has authored several publications on dispute resolution in China and has served as arbitrator in over 120 domestic and…

Arbitration, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Arbitration Proceedings, Case Management, Efficiency, International arbitration, Poland

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Essential Role of Effective Case Management in Arbitration Throughout the second half of the 20th century, arbitration has become a dominant and preferred method for resolving international disputes. Its advantages are widely known. This being said, international arbitration suffers nowadays from increasing costs and duration of the proceedings. It is less efficient than it promises….

Arbitration, Case Management, Database

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Young ICCA

The modern business world strives to increase efficiency – and the use of modern IT systems is a key tool in that regard. One would thus expect that arbitration, which aims to resolve disputes efficiently, would jump at the many opportunities offered by modern IT technology to truly digitalise dispute resolution. But progress has been…