A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Switzerland continues to be governed by Chapter 12 of the Swiss Private International Law Act…
SWITZERLAND Urs Zenhäusern and Joachim Frick A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation On 19 June 2020, the Swiss Parliament enacted the revision of Switzerland’s…
SWITZERLAND Luca Beffa, Joachim Frick, Gentiana Imeri, Urs Zenhäusern A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation A.1.1 Revision of the Swiss Arbitration Act Switzerland is…
The Fédération Internationale des Ingénieurs-Conseils (FIDIC), in association with the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES), launched the First Edition of the “Conditions…
Since its establishment in 2004, the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution and the Arbitration Court have handled 836 arbitration cases. Under the Swiss Rules of International…
On July 28, 2015, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court had to decide a rather unusual case concerning the alleged violation of the right to be…
In a decision rendered on July 29, 2015, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court had to consider the use of administrative secretaries and “consultants” to…
A referral to the “International Chamber of Commerce, Zürich, Switzerland and subsidiary by the laws of Germany” is not a valid arbitration agreement. In…