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When:
January 28, 2020 all-day
2020-01-28T00:00:00+04:00
2020-01-29T00:00:00+04:00
Where:
Abu Dhabi Global Market Building
Contact:
Global Arbitration Review (GAR)

PROGRAMME

9.00: Welcome coffee and registration

9.30: Chairs’ opening remarks

Alec Emmerson, Independent Arbitrator
Lara Hammoud, Senior Legal Counsel, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Arbitrator

9.40: Session one: Technology and international arbitration

Our esteemed panelists will discuss the latest in international arbitration and technology, including:

  • Artificial intelligence;
  • How recent developments in arbitration will affect the future of international arbitration.

10.55: Coffee break

11.30: Session two: Procedural challenges in international arbitration

In this session our panelists will identify the procedural challenges that cause lengthy and costly arbitration proceedings as well as the tools available (or not) to address them. Drawing from specific scenarios that they have come across in their respective experiences.

Questions that are expected to be addressed include:

  • The impact of soft law on international arbitration proceedings;
  • The future of international arbitration;
  • The role of arbitrators, parties, institutions and governments in improving efficiency in arbitration;
  • Does international arbitration require innovation?
  • The limits of party autonomy;
  • Differences between common law and civil law and impact on proceedings.

12.45: Networking lunch

14.00: Session three: Insurance and international arbitration

Our esteemed panellists will focus on insurance and reinsurance disputes, and particularly the causes of disputes, their common features, the industries in which they mainly arise and the best methods for their resolution.

Points expected to be discussed are:

  • Is ADR for insurance and reinsurance disputes helpful?
  • Damages and quantum, how are they assessed?
  • To what extend can insurers be guarantors;
  • Insurers pursuing subrogated claims (how this differs in the region from common law jurisdictions);
  • Insurers providing bonds and guarantees
  • Policy holder disputes. How have things changed since the UAE’s Federal Arbitration Law 2018 and the Insurance Authority’s Committees for the Settlement and resolution of Disputes?

15.15: Coffee break

15.45: Session four: The GAR Live Debate

In Oxford Union style, we will hear teams of debaters argue in favour of, or against a motion. A panel of judges will then voice their opinions on what has been heard, before choosing which side to support and giving reasons for their decisions.

Motion: “This house believes that the erosion of arbitral immunity is to invite the guerrilla into the room.”

17.15: Chairs’ closing remarks

Alec Emmerson, Independent Arbitrator
Lara Hammoud, Senior Legal Counsel, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

Author

Steve Adams is a Knowledge Lawyer at Baker & McKenzie, based in Global Services Belfast. His role involves managing and supporting legal content projects, training and knowledge initiatives for Baker McKenzie's Global Dispute Resolution group, which has over 900 lawyers in 72 offices across the globe. Steven qualified as a lawyer in Northern Ireland, and previously worked for an international law firm, specializing in commercial dispute resolution. Steven Adams can be reached at steven.adams@bakermckenzie.com.

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