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Warsaw, 16 June 2011

Standards in International Arbitration: Practice and Tools

YIAG Briefing & Roundtable

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DORDA BRUGGER JORDIS

Prominent Tools

■ UNCITRAL Notes on Organizing Arbitral Proceedings http://www.uncitral.org/pdf/english/texts/arbitration/arb-notes/arb-notes-e.pdf

■ IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration (2004)

■ IBA Guidelines on Drafting International Arbitration Clauses (2010)

■ IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (2010)

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■ ICC Techniques for Controlling Time and Costs in Arbitration http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/arbitration/id2882/index.html

■ The CPR Protocolhttp://www.cpradr.org/Resources/ALLCPRArticles/tabid/265/ID/614/CPR-Protocol-on-Disclosure-of-Documents-and-Presentation-of-Witnesses-in-Commercial-Arbitration.aspx

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The IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence

■ Consultation on Evidentiary Issues (Art. 2)

■ Document Production (Art. 3)

■ Witnesses and Experts

Art. 4 - Witnesses of fact

Art. 5 - Party appointed experts

Art. 6 - Tribunal appointed experts

■ Inspections (Art. 7)

■ Evidentiary Hearings (Art. 8)

■ Admissibility and Assessment of Evidence (Art. 9)

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What's new?

■ Principles of fair trial and bona fides - Preamble

■ "Meet and Consult" - Art. 2

■ E-Disclosure Art. 3(3)(a)(ii)

■ Request to produce shall contain a statement as to how documents are relevant to the case and material to its outcome - Art. 3(3)(b)

■ Enhanced confidentiality - Art 3(13)

■ Expert witnesses: Statement of independence also of party appointed experts – Art.5(2)(c)

■ Witness appearance in hearings required only upon request of one of the Parties or the Arbitral Tribunal - Art. 8(1)

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Disclosure of Documents - Chances and Risks

■ From the Arbitral Tribunal's perspective

Burden of proof approach Lengthy interim procedure Issues of privileged confidentiality Fair trial

■ From the Parties' perspective

Chance to handle evidentiary problems Risk to lose control about own evidence Issues of privileged confidentiality

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Disclosure Request - How to Deal with Parties From Different Legal Systems?

■ The civil law approach

■ The common law approach

■ IBA Rules

■ Discretion of the Arbitral Tribunal

■ Fair trial

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Thank you for your kind attention!

Gunnar Pickl Attorney at Law

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