Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 30, 2024

Serra e Moura pointed out, in 1923, the ICC Court was established in Paris by a group of entrepreneurs, aiming to provide clients with an efficient dispute resolution mechanism. This shift creates a more cost-efficient legal department, and ultimately allows more time and energy to be directed at the creative process itself.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The unveiling of new Smart Sustainable Cities and Special Economic Zones, aimed at enhancing business prospects, underscores the KSA’s commitment to fostering strategic sector development and attracting high-quality investments. These initiatives have positioned KSA as a pioneering global investment destination.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This prevents arbitrators from taking on too many matters, limits the time-cost of the dispute, and improves efficiency. On the efficiency theme, the panel advocated getting clients to provide input on the arbitral procedure, at an early stage. This concludes our coverage of Australian Arbitration Week 2023.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 13, 2024

Professor Garro started the discussion by highlighting that the biggest deficiencies in cost efficiency often come from the lack of experience of lawyers and arbitrators and that hearing the perspectives of all involved in construction cases can improve efficiency. The conclusion is that AI itself is not a problem.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. Corruption in public procurement makes us poorer and takes our rights away.” DCGP’s data quality has continuously improved over the last decade, enabling increasingly detailed analysis.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 27, 2024

On January 28, 2009 we launched the Kluwer Arbitration blog with the goal of featuring “posts of the highest possible quality” as an “interactive publication” that would render Kluwer’s arbitration offerings even more complete. Technology enabled more efficient research.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 23, 2024

In response, the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (“ Chamber ”) launched an initiative to improve the quality and efficiency of international dispute resolution in the Emirate. Arbitration experts from across the globe were tasked with establishing a new arbitration institute under the name arbitrateAD.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 11, 2024

The TICC aims to provide a platform for the efficient resolution of commercial disputes involving foreign parties, complementing the existing arbitration infrastructure. This can be particularly appealing to parties who prefer the formality of court proceedings but still desire the specialized knowledge and efficiency of arbitration.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. These reforms improved efficiency as the decentralization of the procurement function allowed for quicker decision-making.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The Outside Perspective: Famous German Efficiency? The second panel, chaired by Inka Hanefeld and entitled the “Famous German Efficiency (?) – the Outside Perspective,” further expanded on the outside perspective on international arbitration in Germany. Hence, initial page limits or a prefixed number of witnesses (Annex 3 A.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It is now important for the Centre to show that it is independent and efficient with a commitment to promote ADR services in Asia and beyond. By allowing parties to streamline the resolution process and manage their resources efficiently, AIAC’s framework aligns with the fast-paced demands of trade. 1) Rule 12 of the 2023 Rules.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 8, 2024

The panel’s conclusion highlighted the importance of limiting costs while maintaining the quality of the award, emphasising the human element in costs and economics of international arbitration and the correlation between access to justice and arbitration.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 8, 2024

The panel’s conclusion highlighted the importance of limiting costs while maintaining the quality of the award, emphasising the human element in costs and economics of international arbitration and the correlation between access to justice and arbitration.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As a rule of thumb, tribunal secretaries should exercise restraint at all times, and keep in mind that they ought to contribute to raising the quality of the tribunal’s work, following closely the instructions received, and making sure that nothing goes amiss.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 16, 2024

Electronic data review has become commonplace, offering efficiency over manual methods, especially for extensive data. Parties or arbitrators using AI tools must ensure the confidentiality of the proceedings, while also scrutinizing the origin and quality of historical training data to prevent bias and replication.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Drawing on his experience in the financial sector, Mr. Freer stressed the importance of efficient dispute resolution to foster strong trade relationships. Dr Mariel Dimsey, Secretary-General of the HKIAC, introduced HKIAC’s work, emphasizing its reputation for quality service and Hong Kong’s role as a leading arbitral seat.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 24, 2023

At the outset, Gwen de Vries, Director Content and Market Development, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, on behalf of the publisher, indicated that: … the blog should include frequent, high quality discussions on international arbitration in its broadest sense, thus including private and public arbitration.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 20, 2024

Criteria for selecting arbitrators were also discussed, with an emphasis on the fact that scarcity of arbitrators with specific subject matter knowledge does not constitute an impediment to a high-quality arbitration, as most underlying issues relate to contractual interpretation.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Mr. Friedman discussed the qualities of the ideal adjudicator of business disputes. More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Mr. Ives noted that the use of legal instructions replacing expert analysis poses a risk to the quality and independence of the expert’s opinion and their testimony’s usefulness to the tribunal. The Length and Costs of International Arbitration Proceedings,” addressed issues relating to the efficiency and cost of the arbitration process.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Porangaba noted that technological development is key, and that investments in smart grids may increase efficiency of energy distribution. In short time, the AI was corrupted by the users and started sending out violent messages. In 2023, Brazil reached 94% of renewable production in its electrical matrix.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Indeed, Mr. Junestrand referred to results from a Harvard study demonstrating that lawyers using AI tools were 12% faster, and their work was assessed to be 40% better quality. Moreover, given the anecdotal preference for editing text rather than starting from scratch, the results are often “ready-to-use”.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 6, 2023

See, for example, prior coverage on Kluwer Arbitration Blog on related topics, such as building quality and trust in the arbitral process and the Spanish Arbitration Club’s code of best practice in arbitration.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

One solution that the panel explored was the use of cost-efficient processes, such as post-Covid technology solutions, to mitigate some of the expenses traditionally required in arbitration. When it comes to upholding the rule of law in international arbitration disputes, Eugene J.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The new NAI Rules, which had been last revised in 2015 , introduce a number of innovative features and aim to provide for more efficient and expeditious dispute resolution, thereby responding to the needs and increased sophistication of users of international arbitration. 12 May 2023 ). Hetterscheidt, LinkedIn post, February 2024 ).

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University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Procurement rules and policies seek to ensure that contract awards are free from corruption, conflicts of interest or anticompetitive practices, and that these vast sums of public funds generate value for money and support social, environmental, and innovative practices.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 13, 2024

This post delves into the most significant aspects of the 2024 arbitrateAD arbitration rules (“ Rules ”), including: establishing an independent governing structure to appoint impartial arbitrators, increasing efficiency, and aligning international standards of practice.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2020

We can employ best practices that help us avoid buying products from corrupt companies or countries. Given the changing role of procurement, what leadership qualities are necessary today? I think we’ll come out of this stronger than ever and be able to apply lessons learned to create more supply-chain efficiencies and cost reductions.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We want to unlock its power to improve economic inclusion and sustainability, rebuild integrity and trust, and deliver the quality public services that we all deserve. It is an underfunded, paper-based government chore: we want to turn procurement into a smart, user-friendly, digital public service.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The CIAM new Rules are the result of the joint work of the CIAM’s Chair, José María Alonso , the Best Practices Commission, and the Secretariat , who, with the support of leading international arbitration professionals, have introduced new changes with the aim of strengthening the effectiveness and efficiency of arbitration proceedings.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

In spite of such major policy developments, we still lack the specific and rigorous evidence on the impact of transparency interventions and which types of transparency matter for which actors to support desirable societal outcomes such as high quality public services, procedural justice or public sector integrity (Bauhr et al, 2019).

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 14, 2024

The 2024 Rules aim at increasing efficiency, flexibility and transparency of arbitral proceedings conducted under the auspices of the CRCICA. Early dismissal of claims Article 52 of the 2024 Rules introduces early dismissal of claims for a fair and efficient process of resolving disputes in order to avoid any unnecessary delay or expense.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 16, 2023

As discussed below a recurring theme was the need to find a balance between having model clauses that were, on the one hand, innovative and likely to lead to faster and more efficient resolution of disputes in practice, while, on the other hand, containing sufficient quality and due process safeguards.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

Background By way of background, it is worth saying that NHS commissioning is a peculiar procurement activity resulting from the creation of an NHS internal market in the 1990s with the aim of harnessing market incentives and competition-based governance to improve the efficiency of the English healthcare system (see here ).

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. Finally, the Anti-Corruption Agency is proactively supporting the development of civic monitoring and has agreed to cooperate with the civil society coalition to monitor procurement.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 20, 2024

While the latter group has indeed contributed to an orderly improvement of the ISDS processes with focus on ethics, transparency and efficiency, the former group has forced terminations of several treaties and the triggering of sunset clauses with rather little tangible outcomes. Loukas Mistelis, Co-Editor-in-Chief Prof.

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