Upcoming and Past Events

Perth - Commonwealth Business Forum
Melbourne - International Arbitration in Australia and Beyond - PAST
Sydney - International Arbitration in Australia and Beyond - PAST
Sydney - Breakfast with the Banker - PAST
Perth - Practical Dispute Resolution in the Mining Sector - PAST
Canberra - Facing the Present and Predicting the Future - Issues in International Arbitration - PAST

Albert Monichino Presentation - PPT
Ben Allen Presentation - PDF
Cameron Hassall Presentation - PDF
Daisy Mallett Presentation - PDF
Damian Sturzaker Presentation - PDF
Doug Jones Presentation - PPT
Gavin Denton Presentation - PPT
Khory McCormick Presentation - PPT
Kim Rooney Presentation - PPT
Kit Ow Presentation - PDF
Simon Greenberg Presentation - PPT
Jim Morrison Presentation - PPT

ICC standard and suggested clauses for Dispute Resolution Services
International Arbitration and the Australian Courts - Justice Clyde Croft

ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) is the voice of world business championing the global economy as a force for economic growth, job creation and prosperity. Because national economies are now so closely interwoven, government decisions have far stronger international repercussions than in the past. ICC - the world's only truly global business organization responds by being more assertive in expressing business views.

ICC activities cover a broad spectrum, from arbitration and dispute resolution to making the case for open trade and the market economy system, business self-regulation, fighting corruption or combating commercial crime. ICC has direct access to national governments all over the world through its national committees. The organization's Paris-based international secretariat feeds business views into intergovernmental organizations on issues that directly affect business operations.

The ICC International Court of Arbitration (the "ICC Court") has a distinguished and longstanding history of international dispute resolution spanning over 85 years and has long been one of the world’s best known organisations in the field of international commercial dispute resolution. Established in 1923, the ICC Court has pioneered international commercial arbitration as it is known today and has administered almost 18,000 international arbitration cases since its inception. The ICC Court was also a leader of the movement which led to the adoption of the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. The New York Convention is the most important multilateral treaty on international arbitration.

In 2010 alone, the ICC Court received 793 requests for arbitration concerning 2,145 parties from 140 countries and independent territories. A record number of awards were also rendered during the year (479), the result of an expanding caseload and effective case administration. In 2010, 60 arbitrations were seated in South and East Asia and Oceania and there were 255 parties and a total of 99 arbitrators from this Asian region.

In December 2008, the Secretariat of the ICC Court established its first branch outside Paris in Hong Kong. Staffed by a case management team with the professional, cultural and linguistic expertise required for handling cases linked to South and East Asia, the office brings a new proximity to the ICC Court’s services. In line with the ICC’s commitment to the Asia Pacific region, in recognition of its growing importance in dispute resolution services, the ICC created the ICC Regional Office, Asia in Singapore in December 2009, as a dedicated liaison office for the promotion and business development aspects of the ICC Dispute Resolution Services. It promotes ICC’s dispute resolution services in the region and also organises training programmes and regional arbitration forums.

We invite you to attend one of the events in our upcoming seminar series in the city convenient to you to learn more about the ICC model contracts and the dispute resolution process of the ICC Court of Arbitration