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1. How many years have you been an arbitrator? What made you choose arbitration and how does your previous experience help in this regard? I have been an arbitrator for no less than 25 years. I know this because 25 years ago I drove in a...

A POIGNANT MOMENT IN HISTORY 24 February 2022 will go down in history as a significant turning point following the collapse of the Soviet Union between 1988 and 1991 and, in particular, the pivotal event of the fall of the Berlin wall on 9...

Image credit: SIMC What is the Singapore Convention and why is it important? Since UNCITRAL opened the Singapore Convention on Mediation (“Convention”) for signature on 7 August 2019, there have been 55 signatories and nine countries have ratified the...

Multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses have been used for many years and the jurisprudence has recently accelerated in their development, to better support their proper practical application. Commonly, there is a pre-requisite when a dispute...

One assumes that the parties (both parties) embark upon litigation or arbitration expecting to win – i.e. expecting to succeed with the claim or defence, as the case may be. I make this assumption because I know first hand (having been a partner for many years in a...

Multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses have been used for many years now although the jurisprudence has taken time to develop, in order to support their proper practical application. Commonly, there is a pre-requisite when a dispute arises to...

Online or e-dispute resolution has long been a beneficial option for resolving business disagreements, even before the spread of Covid-19. With the current disruption and bans on travel and meetings in many countries, using remote mediation...

In what is an interesting development for the English and Welsh Courts, the Civil Justice Council recently reported that the Courts have power to compel alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”). The Courts, under the ‘Overriding Objective’ of the...

Nearly 15 years ago the International Maritime Conciliation and Mediation (the IMCAM Panel) was founded in London, October 2006.I was honoured to chair the founding committee and to stand as its first President.A perspective can be drawn from the distance now in...