This is a book for you, dear in-house counsel. In-house counsel are generalists. In-house counsel need concise, accurate advice about special areas of law.…
A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation In the 2017-2018 edition of this Yearbook, we reported about a working group that had been tasked with…
GERMANY Ragnar Harbst, Heiko Plassmeier, Jürgen Mark A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Germany continues to be governed by the provisions…
GERMANY Ragnar Harbst, Heiko Plassmeier, Jürgen Mark A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Germany continues to be governed by the provisions…
Recently, both the German legislator and the German Institution of Arbitration tasked working groups with a reform of the German arbitration law and the…
Anchoring is a psychological phenomenon wherein a person is influenced by certain reference points he or she is given at the beginning. Accordingly, a…
In its decision dated 12 January 2015 (Court of Appeal Munich, file no. 34 Sch 17/13, http://openjur.de/u/755584.html), the Court of Appeal Munich had to…
According to German law, a party challenging an arbitral award for procedural irregularities has to demonstrate that such irregularities presumably affected the outcome of…
Witness evidence in international arbitration is generally prepared by witness statements these days. A witness statement is a written account of the testimony that…