Co-Chair
Jacques Bouyssou
Co-Chair
Sandrine Giroud
Litigation Committee
The Litigation Committee brings together international litigators to share their personal experiences of legal, practical and procedural issues from around the world. Providing the opportunity to build a strong cross-border professional network for lawyers at all levels and ages, the Committee uses the platform offered by the main IBA conference and its own specialist mid-year conference to share views on issues such as jurisdiction, choice of law and international judicial assistance. The Committee also cooperates with other committees on issues relevant to wider dispute resolution.
Forthcoming conferences and webinars View All Conferences
Competition class actions and digital platforms: strategy and procedure
10 Nov 2026 1500 - 1600 GMT
Webinar
Fifth IBA India Litigation and ADR Symposium 2026
27 Nov - 28 Nov 2026
New Delhi , India
IBA Annual Litigation Forum - Chasing a moving world: litigation in an age of acceleration
17 Mar - 19 Mar 2027
Mumbai , India
Guides
Guide on AI and litigation (October 2026)
Artificial intelligence is reshaping litigation faster than any development in recent legal memory, and the law is struggling to keep pace.
This Guide offers a practical, comparative picture of how that challenge is being met across more than forty jurisdictions. Working from a common questionnaire, contributors in each jurisdiction survey the legislation, regulatory and professional guidance, judicial direction and emerging case law that now govern the use of AI by lawyers, litigants and the courts themselves.
View all the country guides here.
Cross-border enforcement of judgements against states – jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guide (March 2024)
Authors from almost fifty jurisdictions have taken part in this project. For each jurisdiction, our aim is to outline the key requirements for enforcing a foreign judgment against a state entity. The guide covers the basic criteria for enforcement of a foreign judgment, the application of sovereign immunity, and due process standards and exceptions (service, representation, etc). It also considers how these principles apply where states are involved in armed conflict, which is sadly relevant to a number of litigants around the world currently seeking to recover for wartime damages against aggressor states.
To our knowledge, no similar guide exists, although the need for one is clear. View guides
Publications
From the Editors: Litigation Committee newsletter – autumn 2026
Welcome to the Autumn 2026 edition of the IBA Litigation Committee Newsletter, entitled ‘What Moved the Needle? A Year of Litigation Developments around the World’.
Released on Oct 01, 2026
AI and the Spanish judiciary
The Spanish General Council of the Judiciary (the “Council”) issued Instruction 2/2026, dated 28 January 2026, which deals with the use of AI by the Spanish judges, setting out several principles which shall be observed, keeping effective human control. The Instruction 2/2026 also establishes certain limits and seeks public transparency.
Released on Oct 01, 2026
Annulment versus enforcement of arbitral awards in Nigeria: a narrower path for courts under the Arbitration and Mediation Act 2023
The Arbitration and Mediation Act (AMA) 2023 is a far-reaching measure that fundamentally improves Arbitration in Nigeria. One of the most notable changes in the AMA 2023 is its extensive and restrictive set of grounds for setting aside awards, which reduces courts’ interference in the arbitration process in Nigeria, while also liberalizing the approach to award recognition and enforcement of Awards. Furthermore, the new legislation introduces innovative measures, such as the creation of the Award Review Tribunal, as well as a wider range of interim protective measures to assist in the enforcement of awards. This paper explores the disparity between enforcement and annulment, vis-a-vis the recent trends in award enforcement under the AMA 2023 in Nigeria.
Released on Oct 01, 2026
Cyber fraud: a practical guide for asset recovery in Hong Kong
The financial infrastructure of Hong Kong, being a premier international banking hub, is frequently exploited by global fraudsters looking to deal with the illicit proceeds. The Hong Kong courts play a critical role in furthering international asset recovery. Time is of the essence when it comes to asset recovery in cyber fraud. Although a mere dispersal of the concerned assets or proceeds through Hong Kong does not necessarily render the recovery hopeless, it would aggravate the costs and efforts required for tracing and recovering them.
Released on Oct 01, 2026
Dispute Resolution International journal
Dispute Resolution International (DRI) is the journal of the IBA's Dispute Resolution Section, which includes the Arbitration Committee among other related committees. It provides in-depth discussion of current developments and topical issues in all areas of dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, mediation and other areas of alternative dispute resolution, as well as negligence and damages.
The latest issue of DRI is now available to access online for all members of the IBA Dispute Resolution Section here.
External links
EFFORTS – Towards more EFfective enFORcemenT of claimS in civil and commercial matters within the EU
The IBA Litigation Committee has joined the Stakeholders Cross-Border Committee of the EFFORTS Project, a consortium comprising the University of Milan (coord.), the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law and the Universities of Heidelberg, Brussels VUB, Vilnius and Zagreb, with financial support from the Civil Justice Programme of the European Union.
Embracing a practice driven approach, a group of renowned experts in international procedural law analyses the legislation and case-law of seven EU Member States (namely Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, and Luxembourg), promotes the exchange of practices among operators, and collects good practices with the purpose of assessing the interaction of the EU Regulations on the recognition and enforcement of judgments with national legislations.
The targeted EU legislative instruments are the Brussels 1a Regulation and the Regulations on the European Enforcement Order, the European Small Claims Procedure, the European Payment Order, and the European Account Preservation Order. The interaction of said EU instruments with national rules signifies a major weakness of the system, making it difficult for practitioners, and even more for consumers and businesses, to be aware of the mere existence and practical functioning of the available procedures and mechanisms.
The consortium will pursue clarity by means of seven Practice Guides on the cross-border recovery of claims in the targeted Member States. It will contribute to the improvement of existing EU and national legislation by drafting policy recommendations for national and EU policymakers. Finally, it will foster clarity and access to information by setting up the EFFORTS Network and a Working Group on the digitalisation of enforcement procedures. The project involves judges, enforcement agents, EU and national policymakers, lawyers, in-house counsel, consumer associations, and academics.
Additional information concerning the EFFORTS Project is available here
Subcommittees and other groups
The Litigation Committee also coordinates the activities of the following subcommittees/working groups.
- Africa and Middle East Working Group
- Americas Working Group
- Asia Pacific Working Group
- EU Judicial Cooperation Subcommittee
- Hague Conference on Private International Law Subcommittee
- International Litigation Conventions and Laws Subcommittee
- Litigation Committee Advisory Board
- Young Litigators Forum
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