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How the Dispute Board Process Could Improve UK Adjudication
Adjudication has been hailed as a great success: it has certainly taken pressure off the courts and compared to litigation and arbitration it has provided, at least in theory, a quick and cheap way for the construction industry to have disputes resolved.
Murray Armes
Counting The Cost
Litigation has always been expensive but the signs are that it is becoming increasingly so. A survey conducted by the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and others showed that costs were increasing at a faster rate than increases in hourly rates
Murray Armes
The Sun in a Box – The ITER Dispute Board
ITER is one of the largest and most important energy projects currently under construction. The acronym, ITER, in this case stands for “International Tokamak Experimental Reactor”, the aim being to construct the world’s largest experimental nuclear fusion reactor.
Murray Armes
The Funding (or not) of Dispute Boards by the International Funding Banks
FIDIC contracts are unique because they are the only international standard form suite of contracts to promote dispute avoidance. The vehicle for this is the Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB) and the first role of the DAB is to help the contracting parties avoid disputes.
Murray Armes
Dispute Avoidance In Practice
How to stop a simple problem spiraling from a breeze to a whirlwind. Disputes are costly. On average 50% of the legal costs borne by the construction industry are related to disputes and for roughly 10% of projects, 10% of the total costs were legal costs.
Murray Armes
Dispute Boards: Do they work?
King’s College London’s report “2024 Dispute Boards International Survey: A Study on the Worldwide Use of Dispute Boards over the Past Six Years” (the “Report”).
Professor Renato Nazzini & Raquel Macedo Moreira
Enforcing A Dispute Board’s Decision
There has, for many years, been some considerable international interest in Dispute Review Boards (‘‘DRBs’’) and Dispute Adjudication Boards (‘‘DABs’’), collectively referred to as Dispute Boards (‘‘DBs’’).
Nicholas Gould
The New CIArb Dispute Board Rules
In August 2014 the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators produced and published a set of international commercial dispute board rules (the “CIArb Rules”).
Nicholas Gould
Establishing Dispute Boards
This paper focuses on selecting, nominating, appointing and establishing dispute boards. Consideration is given not just to the legal issues and standard form provisions available, but also to the practical issues and difficulties of identifying and appointing board members for international projects.
Nicholas Gould
FIDIC issue Guidance on DAB Decisions
The FIDIC Contracts Committee has issued a Guidance Note dealing with the powers of, effect of and the enforcement of Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB) decisions.
Nicholas Gould