Arbitration

As a forum for pooling ideas on issues relating to international arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution, the Commission on Arbitration aims to:

• promote on a worldwide scale the settlement of international business disputes by means of ICC arbitration, mediation, expertise, dispute boards and other forms of ADR;
• study the juridical aspects of arbitration and other modes of settlement of disputes of an international commercial nature;
• examine ICC dispute settlement services in view of current developments, including new technologies.

Recent Achievements

The ICC Dispute Board Documents adopted by the Commission were published in September 2004. These documents comprise the ICC Dispute Board Rules (in force since 1 September 2004), the ICC Model Dispute Board Member Agreement and the Standard ICC Dispute Board Clauses.

The ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin has recently published the Special Supplement "Using Technology to Resolve Business Disputes" (ICC publication no.667) which includes part of the work of the task force on IT in arbitration ("Using IT in International Arbitration: suggested approaches and procedures").

Projects for 2006

• Identify ways to reduce time and costs in international arbitration and, in particular, in complex ICC arbitration cases.
• Study the role of arbitral tribunals when acting as “amiables compositeurs”.
• Study the impact of criminal law on arbitration proceedings, eg jurisdictional, procedural and substantive problems that may arise.
• Study the jurisdictional, procedural and substantive problems arising in arbitrating competition law issues.
• Develop explanatory notes for the use of experts in the conduct of expertise proceedings.

Membership

The ICC Commission on Arbitration and its Task Forces and Groups have over 500 members from 82 countries, including partners in international law firms, in-house counsels, law professors, experts in different dispute resolution services, and trade executives in member companies and international organisations.

ICC, as the foremost business rule-maker for international trade, sets voluntary rules that companies from all parts of the world apply to millions of transactions every year. The rules created by the Commission on Arbitration, such as the Rules of Arbitration, the ADR Rules, the Expertise Rules and the Dispute Board Rules, have become part of the legal fabric of international commerce.

Commission Officers

• Chair: Peter Wolrich, Attorney-at-Law, Paris (France)
• Vice-Chair: Antonias Dimolitsa, Attorney-at-Law, Athens (Greece); Ibrahim Fadlallah, Professor, Attorney-at-Law, Paris (Lebanon); Jean-Claude Goldsmith, Attorney-at-Law, Paris (France); Michael Schneider, Attorney-at-Law, Geneva (Switzerland)
• Secretary: Katherine González Arrocha, ICC

Task Forces

• Guidelines for ICC Expertise Proceedings
  Chair: Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler, Attorney-at-Law (Supreme Court), Karlsruhe-Ettlingen (Germany); Erick Schäfer, Attorney-at-Law, Düsseldorf (Germany)
• Arbitrating Competition Law Issues
  Chair: Marc Blessing, Attorney-at-Law, Zurich (Switzerland)
• Criminal Law and Arbitration
  Chairs: Jean Paul Béraudo, Former judge (Cour de Cassation), Paris (France); V V Veeder, Barrister, London (UK)
• Reducing Time and Costs in Complex Arbitration
  Chair: Yves Derains, Avocat au Barreau de Paris, SCP Derains & Associés (France); Christopher Newmark, Partner, Baker & McKenzie, London (UK)
• “Amiable Composition and ex aequo et bono”
  Chairs: Edouard Bertrand, Senior Associate, Slaughter & May (France); Ronald King, Partner, Ashurst (UK)

Forums

• ADR
  Leader: Jean-Claude Goldsmith, Attorney-at-Law, Paris (France)
• ICC Rules/Court
  Leader: Antonias Dimolitsa, Attorney-at-Law, Athens (Greece)
• Arbitration Issues and New Fields
  Leader: Michael Schneider, Attorney-at-Law, Geneva (Switzerland)

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