VENEZUELA Eugenio Hernández-Bretón, María Eugenia Salazar, Gabriel De Jesús, Héctor Martínez and María Alejandra Ruiz. A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Venezuela continues to be governed by the Commercial Arbitration Law, published in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela No. 36.430 on 7 April 1998. No legislative amendment has been made since. In addition, Venezuela is a contracting State to a number of arbitration treaties such as the 1911…
UZBEKISTAN Alexander Korobeinikov and Saidaziz Alimov A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation Arbitration in Uzbekistan continues to be…
UNITED STATES David Zaslowsky, Mark Goodman, Barry Thompson, and Tom Tysowsky A. Legislation and Rule A.1 Legislation In…
KYRGYZSTAN Alexander Korobeinikov and Alissa Inshakova A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Kyrgyzstan continues to be governed by the Law on Arbitration Courts (“Law”), as enacted on 30 July 2002, and to which no amendments have been made since 2004. The Law is mostly based on UNCITRAL Model Law. Provisions of the Law were challenged several times based on arguments that the Law and the main principles of arbitration proceedings contradicted Kyrgyzstan’s…
UNITED KINGDOM Judith Mulholland, Dogan Gultutan, Anna Storer, Joanna Lees and Teresa Ryan A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 …
UKRAINE Ihor Siusel, Kseniia Prokhur and Nataliya Lipska A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation Ukraine is a civil…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in onshore United Arab Emirates (UAE) continues to be governed by the UAE Federal Law No. 6 of 2018, to which no legislative amendment has been made since its promulgation. International arbitration in the offshore Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) continues to be governed by the DIFC Law No. 1 of 2008. The DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre has released updated mediation and arbitration rules, which…
KAZAKHSTAN Alexander Korobeinikov and Yana Levkut A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation In April 2016, as a result…
TURKEY Yalin Akmenek, Demet Kasarcioglu, Ceyda Sıla Cetinkaya A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation The International Arbitration Law…
JAPAN Yoshiaki Muto, Takeshi Yoshida, Dominic Sharman and Yuko Kai A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Japan continues to be governed by the Arbitration Act of 2003, which took effect in 2004 and to which no legislative amendment has been made since. Japan is, however, expected to amend its Arbitration Act this year. After several steps in both the public and private sectors to build the country as an international dispute resolution…