CIArb offers this Guidance Note on Remote Dispute Resolution Proceedings to provide parties to existing and future disputes, as well as neutrals, a guide for conducting proceedings in any circumstance where parties to the dispute are unable to meet physically.
This Guidance Note is intended to be broadly applicable to the current 2020 global health crisis and well beyond. The Guidance Note provides for proceedings via video and audio conferencing, emails and other offline methods such as document-only proceedings. The Guidance Note is also meant to apply to arbitration, mediation, adjudication, negotiation, expert determination, dispute boards, or any other type of alternative dispute resolution. It covers issues pertaining to preliminary considerations, venue, virtual proceedings, interpreters, witnesses and experts, procedural documentations, confidentiality and privacy concerns, dispute resolution clauses, choice of neutrals, institutional proceedings and Ad hoc proceedings.