Month: June 2016

By Shashi K. Dholandas, International Case Director for the AAA-ICDR in New York City

Canadians rightfully pride themselves on playing an integral role in the ever advancing development of international procedural rules and arbitral institutions. Canada was the first country to adopt the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration in 1986 and its nationals continue to champion the implementation of cutting edge institutional dispute resolution tools such as emergency arbitrator, joinder, and consolidation mechanisms; mechanisms which are becoming commonplace through their adoption in one form or another by arbitral institutions around the world.

Continue reading Canada’s Balancing Act: Ad Hoc v. Institutionally Administered Arbitration – What’s Next?

By Celeste Estefania Salinas Quero, Legal Counsel for the Stockholm Chambers of Commerce

On 26 April 2016, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (“SCC”) released for public consultation drafts of the 2017 Arbitration Rules and 2017 Rules for Expedited Arbitrations (“draft rules”). The drafts, which update the 2010 SCC Rules, are the result of a one and half-years of work by a special committee composed of international and local practitioners, academics, SCC Board and Secretariat members (“Committee”). The Committee was divided into three sub-committees that in parallel and coordinately revised the SCC Rules and worked with special provisions for investor-state disputes.

Continue reading Draft SCC Rules for consultation: What’s new?