The International Bar Association has been responsible for several definitive guidelines to assist practitioners in international arbitration. These include the 2010 Guide for Drafting International Arbitration Agreements, the 2010 Rules for Taking of Evidence, and the 2004 Guide on Conflicts of Interest. To this we now add the IBA Guidelines on...
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Our correspondent and colleague Alessandro Bruni offers the following update on the ever-changing state of Italian mediation. ...
Notice has recently gone out of a report and recommendations of a Working Group appointed to review the practicality of an International Mediation Center in Singapore. The news release, available here, explains that the recommendations include the establishment of a new service provider limited to mediation of cross-border disputes; the...
When I served at the CPR Institute we periodically reminded users of arbitration that the Institute had devised a procedure whereby parties could contract for appellate review of arbitration awards. I think I am correct that during my 10-year tenure no one ever availed themselves of these procedures, which on...
A reminder was recently received of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section's 11th Annual Advanced Mediation and Advocacy Institute at the Omni Hotel in Nashville, TN, on November 21-22, 2013....
The ABA Dispute Resolution Section will again observe "Mediation Week" on October 14-18, 2013, encouraging local events and teaching sessions to foster the use of mediation in various contexts. Attorney Peter V. Arcese has assembled a panel of mediators including myself, Patrick Westerkamp and Eunice Salton to a discussion on...
Our Italian correspondent, Avv. Giorgio Grasso, has prepared a useful report on the reintroduction of mandatory civil and commercial mediation in Italy. The new legislation -- replacing a 2010 version that prompted a lawyers' strike and was declared unconstitutional in 2012 -- amends the scope of the original scheme and is...