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EUROPEAN COURT OF ARBITRATION

EUROPEAN COURT OF ARBITRATION. www.cour.europe.arbitrage.org. © Mauro Rubino-Sammartano President.

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EUROPEAN COURT OF ARBITRATION

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  1. EUROPEAN COURT OF ARBITRATION www.cour.europe.arbitrage.org © Mauro Rubino-Sammartano President

  2. The European Court of Arbitration administers arbitration since 1960 and (more recently) mediation proceedings.It is the administering body of the Centre Européen d’Arbitrage, a legal entity with registered offices in Strasbourg

  3. Groupement des Hôteliers, Restaurateurs et Débitants du Bas-Rhin • Association Régionale des Avocats “ARA” • Ordre des Avocats à la Cour d’Appel de Colmar • Ordre des Avocats du Barreau de Strasbourg • Ordre des Avocats du Barreau de Saverne • Conseil Régional de Strasbourg de l’Ordre des Experts-Comptables et des Comptables Agréés • Compagnie Régionale des Commissaires aux Comptes du Ressort de la Cour d’Appel de Colmar • Conseil Interrégional des Notaires des Cours d’Appel de Colmar et de Metz • Commission Régionale des Conseils Juridiques du Ressort de la Cour d’Appel de Colmar • Conseil de l’Europe • Conseil Général du Bas-Rhin • Ville de Strasbourg • Université Robert Schuman – Strasbourg • Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Politiques – Strasbourg • Chambre Régionale de Commerce et d’Industrie d’Alsace • Chambre Régionale de Commerce et d’Industrie de Strasbourg et du Bas-Rhin • Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Colmar • Chambre de Métiers d’Alsace • Bourse de Commerce de Strasbourg • Maison du Commerce International de Strasbourg • Chambre Patronale des Industries du Bas-Rhin List of sponsors upon the formation of the European Court of Arbitration

  4. National branches • BELGIUM • CROATIA • FRANCE • GERMANY • ITALY • PORTUGAL • SPAIN • SWITZERLAND

  5. Local branches • Puglia • Sicily • Verona • Abruzzi • Naples • Palermo • North-Est • Barcellona P.G. • Milan • Rome • Bologna • Catania • Calabria • Florence • Genoa • Messina

  6. REGULATIONS • Rules of Arbitration • Rules of Arbitration on documents only • Rules of Mediation • Rules of Pre-Arbitral Referee

  7. A SOLE ARBITRATOR WHO MUST DECIDE WITHIN 9 MONTHS • Essential alternative to Court proceedings in national and international disputes

  8. Main advantages of the Court’s rules of Arbitration • A sole Arbitrator, which reduces the costs by about 2/3. • Awards are made within 1 year (a deadline which is carefully monitored by the Court). • A preliminary meeting with the parties is arranged to help them to select the arbitrator. • Very reasonable fees. • A constructive dialogue between the arbitrator and the parties.

  9. Great attention is given to respecting the right of the parties to prove their case: • excluding the old requirements that the parties submit in advance the questions which they wish to be put to the witness. • excluding interferences of the arbitrator on the number of witnesses • respecting the right of the parties to examine and cross-examine the witnesses (which is an extremely important change vis-a-vis the present Civil law rules to examine witnesses) • respecting the right of a party to avoid that the opposite party produces only the documents which are in her favour.

  10. The arbitrator’s duty to draw up from commencement a schedule of the proceedings. • A provision for an appellate arbitral tribunal, to hear again the merits, in those jurisdictions which consent it (the appellate proceedings lasting no more than 12 months). • Appeal to such appellate proceedings is conditional upon the loser depositing, with the European Court, the amount placed by the first arbitrator to his charge (the consequence of this being that the award – rather than being an enforceable instrument – is enforced immediately).

  11. Steps to avoid a dispute • Direct attempts by the parties to settle • Attempts by Counsel for the parties to settle the dispute • Disadvantage: unilateral approach by each party • Absence of further solutions

  12. In case of negative result: LITIGATION in Court or before an arbitrator.

  13. NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF LITIGATION: • Increase of aggressiveness through the interaction between each party and her Counsel • Lack of flexibility in the approach by each party • Each party become prisoner of her aggressiveness • In-house and outside Counsels sometimes act like gladiators • Long duration of the proceedings • High legal costs • Loss of time for the litigant (human resources for search of documents and to remember facts and circumstances, instead of concentrating on new business).

  14. FROM THE MYSTIQUE OF THE FIGHT, TO THE TRIUMPH OF REASON

  15. The new alternative MEDIATION (Settlement facilitated by a Neutral)

  16. Main features of mediation • aim: to help the parties to understand each other • technique: use of psychology • role of a legal background: • useful to frame the dispute • not necessary during the proceedings (except for the duty of the neutral to treat the parties in the same way)

  17. Mediator’s tasks • to understand the psychology of the parties • to establish the facts • to understand what blocks the parties • to make each party understand her weak points through separate meetings (Caucuses) • to make each party realise – without insisting too much – the worst scenario which she may face if she does not settle • to induce the parties to review their positions • to propose – if necessary – alternative solutions

  18. Typical situations which block the parties • Lack of information • Wish not to look at the negative aspects • Wrong assessment • Lack of balance • Denial of obvious facts • Lack of availability to recognise a mistake • Aggressiveness • Hate • Wish to crash the opposite party • Unreasonable approach of Counsel

  19. Multi step solution available • Mediation • (in the absence of this) Arbitration (by a sole arbitrator who must decide within 12 months) • Availability of an appellate degree of arbitration • Immediate enforcement of the first award (in case of loss of the appellate degree)

  20. The European Court of Arbitration • Is well aware that the parties look for: • something not only different from litigation, • but definitely better • Gives top priority – being made of professional people – to the duty to serve the parties.

  21. EUROPEAN COURT OF ARBITRATION THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION www.cour.europe.arbitrage.org © Mauro Rubino-Sammartano President

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