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Bias Challenges in International Arbitration - The Need for a 'Real Danger' Test (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R6,115
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Bias Challenges in International Arbitration - The Need for a 'Real Danger' Test (Hardcover, New): Sam Luttrell

Bias Challenges in International Arbitration - The Need for a 'Real Danger' Test (Hardcover, New)

Sam Luttrell

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Private international actors go to arbitration to avoid adjudicatory risks, especially the risk of bias. It follows that safeguarding procedural fairness is a key concern in arbitral processes, and that exposing actual bias is crucial. However, evidence from both case law and institutional statistics shows that wily parties are willing to abuse procedural fairness and cry bias as a way of delaying proceedings and escaping enforcement, and that the frequency of such spurious challenges is increasing. This insightful book offers a proposal, solidly grounded in legal principle and precedent, for how the arbitration community should respond to this threat. The author shows how 'dirty' challenge tactics are made viable primarily by the prevalence of a judicially derived test for bias which focuses on appearances, rather than facts. He argues that the most commonly used test of bias, the 'reasonable apprehension' test, makes it easy to allege a lack of impartiality and independence. He shows that the 'real danger' test, derived from the decision of the House of Lords in Gough, has a much higher threshold, and has the additional advantage of making the arbitral award stronger at the all-important enforcement stage. In the course of the presentation the book analyzes, in extraordinary depth, such issues as the following: - which state's courts are most likely to find arbitrator bias, and which state's courts are least likely; - applying the 'real danger' test under the various applicable conventions, the Model Law, and institutional rules; - bias challenges under European Human Rights law; - distinction between party-appointed arbitrators and chairmen in the context of a bias test; - relevant trends in investor-state and ICSID arbitration; and - bias rules in the lex mercatoria. In a broad comparative survey of the law of bias challenges in international commercial arbitration covering all leading states, the author examines various municipal laws to determine their tolerance for a 'real danger' clause in commercial contracts. His analysis, replete with case summaries and material facts, provides a strong scaffolding for his thesis, and also probes the causes of the increased rate of bias challenge. The need for a uniform test in this area is made very convincing by this original study. Arbitrators and other interested professionals and academics will find it of unusual value and interest, and corporate counsel will find much to consider in the use of the 'real danger' clause.

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Imprint: Kluwer Law International
Country of origin: Netherlands
Release date: 2009
First published: November 2009
Authors: Sam Luttrell
Dimensions: 246 x 157 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 296
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-90-411-3191-1
Categories: Books > Law > International law > Settlement of international disputes > International arbitration
Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International law of transport & communications > General
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LSN: 90-411-3191-4
Barcode: 9789041131911

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