Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

They called for the inclusion of users and experts to ensure technical soundness and efficiency. A significant concern within the Peruvian arbitral system is the existence of arbitration centers that fail to meet even minimum quality standards.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 11, 2024

She is passionate about championing alternative dispute resolution across Africa and beyond and fostering a culture of cooperation, efficiency, and excellence among the diverse stakeholders involved in dispute resolution. The use of AFSA services is cost-efficient for our clients.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 15, 2024

Rouven F Bodenheimer, The Tribunal Visualized Approach: Improving Proceedings by Visualized Case Introduction Efficiency in international arbitration has long been contentious, as promised benefits often fail to materialize, leading to user dissatisfaction. Despite ongoing debates and procedural innovations, underlying inefficiencies persist.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The datasets not only republish structured data gathered from official source websites, but also contain corruption risk red flags developed by the research team. Regarding procurement that uses funds from development aid donors, pressure to ensure accountability and transparency in the allocation of funds has been growing.

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Data-powered red flags strengthen efforts to fight corruption. Europe’s upcoming Anti-Corruption Directive, with a new focus on prevention, could be a significant mandate to improve procurement data quality. We’re ready to help make this happen.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The changes provide not just incremental improvements for efficiency and integrity of proceedings, but also changes to reflect developing societal norms, such as environmental impact and diversity. Also, our 2024 HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules came into effect on 1 June 2024, which is a refinement of the well-received 2018 version.

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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

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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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

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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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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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Instead of abandoning party appointments, some panellists advocated for an expansion of the talent pool and an improvement on the quality of arbitrators to address concerns of bias. Another focus was the tension between due process and efficiency in arbitration proceedings.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It is essential that the institution continues to offer the high quality and efficient case administration services for which we have come to be recognised. The main ACICA & CIArb Australia International Arbitration Conference is always a drawcard with high quality dynamic sessions. Past interviews are available here.

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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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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

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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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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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

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 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

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

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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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 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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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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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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