Category Archives: Best Practice

Not Rules or Laws or Statutes

Improving Procedures for Discovery and Documentary Evidence

improving-procedures-for-discovery.htm, Andrew Rogers, Source: BOOK: ICCA Congress series no. 7 (1996), pp. 131 – 144

Late addition – UNCITRAL Notes

UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (UNCITRAL) Notes on Organizing Arbitral Proceedings – pdf

A need for an ‘express guide on electronic documents’?

Two statements in the Electronic Discovery In International Arbitration article grabbed my attention; ‘parties are disclosing electronic information both voluntarily and when compelled to do so during discovery’ and also‘that parties to international arbitration are probably treating e-mail and other electronic information like paper documents, with no attention to the implications that the electronic nature [...]

Questions raised in my research

To what extent are the IBA Rules of Evidence and the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest still sufficient and or fulfil the needs of the parties in complex disputes in areas such as re-insurance, financial markets and banking? In these sectors, computer technologies are deployed extensively and the nature of business transactions are not [...]

Controlling Costs in Arbitration

Techniques for Controlling Time and Costs in Arbitration A Report from the ICC Commission on Arbitration In the ICC Publication 843 -Techniques for Controlling Time and Costs in Arbitration, no specific mention on ‘electronic document production’ or ‘electronically stored information’, although ‘Úse of IT’ is discussed. The Redfern Schedule is mentioned for managing requests for [...]

Evidence Disclosure in Chinese International Arbitration

What can we glimpse (& learn?) from the Chinese where Alternative Dispute Resolution has been the way of resolving disputes from the Confucian era to current digital era? For a glimpse on Chinese international arbitration, check out the pdf article: Tipping the Scale to Bring a Balanced Approach: Evidence Disclosure in Chinese International Arbitration. By [...]

WHERE NEITHER THE IBA RULES NOR U.S. LITIGATION PRINCIPLES ARE ENOUGH

…electronic discovery is already happening also– to a limited extent–in international arbitration and neither the IBA Rules nor US litigation principles are enough. According to a featured international article‘, ‘ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: WHERE NEITHER THE IBA RULES NOR U.S. LITIGATION PRINCIPLES ARE ENOUGH ‘by Jonathan L. Frank, Julie Bédard, Dispute Resolution Journal, November, [...]