23rd Annual IBA Arbitration Day
24 Mar - 25 Mar 2022
Session information
Procedural timetable no 1 – topped and tailed: improved case management
Friday 25 March (0930 - 1045)
Description
Lucy Reed will make the case for a more robust Procedural Order template to include, as encouraged options:
- A tribunal session before the hearing to discuss the case and flag questions for counsel;
- Regular short teleconferences with the presiding arbitrator to anticipate, air and decide minor issues;
- A ‘Kaplan early opening’;
- Key points in the schedule for the parties to consider settlement/mediation;
- Brief bullet-point post-hearing submissions on key open points; and
- Reserve dates for subsequent in-person/telephone deliberations.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Lucy Reed | Arbitration Chambers, New York, New York, USA |
Speakers
| Professor Georges Affaki | AFFAKI, Paris, France |
| Yoshimi Ohara | Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Tokyo, Japan |
| Dorothy Ufot SAN | Dorothy Ufot & Co, Lagos, Nigeria; Co-opted Member, Nominations Committee |