Courts and Arbitration: Forming Choices for Young Lawyers
Article from: OGEL 1 (2012), in A Liber Amicorum: Thomas Wälde - Law Beyond Conventional Thought
Introduction
A regular feature of arbitration conferences or papers in journals or legal marketing literature is the expression Court Support for Arbitration adopting a mantra that the courts of whatever country is being pushed by the speaker or writer will blithely and unquestioningly 'support' the arbitration process. One could almost imagine such conferences as being the same as an Eastern Europe communist party annual meeting circa 1971 (taking into account the adjustment for hair and clothes) where speaker after speaker proclaims the ever-greater success of the current five-year plan to ranks ...