The Arbitration Award:  Getting it Written, Getting it Right

Thursday September 3, 4 – 5:30 pm

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Chair: Louise Barrington, JD, LLM, FCIArb, Chartered Independent Arbitrator, Arbitration Place

Joel Richler, BA, BCL, LL.B, FCIArb, Bay Street Chambers and Arbitration Place
Daniel Urbas, BA, LLB, BCL, FCIArb, Urbas Arbitral

• Preparing to write the award in the course of the arbitration
• Closing the arbitration
• Deliberations and managing tribunal dynamics
• Communications with counsel and experts in the course of writing the award
• Form of the award (statutory and institutional requirements for enforceability)
• Best practices
• Applications to correct or interpret

Louise Barrington, JD, LLM, FCIArb, Chartered Independent Arbitrator, Arbitration Place

Louise Barrington is a dispute resolver with 30 years of experience.  She practiced law in Ontario before moving into the field of international commercial arbitration during graduate studies in Paris.  A Canadian, she also holds a British passport.

In 2001 Ms. Barrington became one of Asia’s first Chartered Arbitrators of CIArb.  She has served as arbitrator for the ICC many times, appointed by parties and by the ICC National Committees of Canada and Britain - as co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and chair.  She is a panel member for HKIAC, CIArb, AAA-ICDR, VIAC, CIETAC and DIAC and in Canada has chaired financial services disciplinary hearings, is an investigator into bank/consumer disputes and has acted as sole arbitrator in several cases under the former FSCO auto insurance benefits scheme.

She founded and directs the annual Vis East Arbitration Moot (www.cisgmoot.org) now in its 16^th year  and is co-founder and former co-president of ArbitralWomen (www.arbitralwomen.org ).    She is chief editor of The Danubia Files: Lessons in Award Writing from the Vis Moot and established Vis Moot Capacity Building Programmes in Cambodia and Myanmar.

Joel Richler, BA, BCL, LL.B, FCIArb, Bay Street Chambers and Arbitration Place

Joel is a former Blakes partner who now practices as an arbitrator and mediator at  Bay Street Chambers and Arbitration Place.

Joel acted as emergency arbitrator, sole arbitrator, chair and party-appointee on many domestic and international arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional. He also has acted as a construction contract adjudicator for the MTO and ORBA.

Joel is a member of the Canadian and International ICDR rosters, the BCICAC roster (British Columbia), and the Roster of Referees for MTO and the Ontario Roadbuilders Association.

Daniel Urbas BA, LLB, BCL, FCIArb, Urbas Arbitral

Professional Development Accreditation:

• ADRIC designation holders earn 3 Continuing Education & Engagement (CEE) points
• CPD accreditation received to date for this webinar (pending from other Law Societies across Canada):
  • Law Society of British Columbia: 1.5 hours
  • Law Society of New Brunswick: 1.5 hours
  • Law Society of Saskatchewan: 1.5 hours

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Crossing the Border:  Canada/US Commercial Arbitration

Thursday September 10, 4 – 5:30 pm ET

 Joint program with New York International Commercial Arbitration Center

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Andrea Bjorklund BA, JD, MA, Full Professor/L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law, McGill University
Stephanie Cohen, BA, JD, FCIArb, Independent Arbitrator
William G. Horton, C.Arb, FCIArb, William G. Horton Corporation
Benno Kimmelman BA, JD, Partner Sidney Austin LLP

• Model Law v Federal Arbitration Act
• Arbitrating arbitrability v Competence-Competence
• Institutional v Ad Hoc Arbitration
• Party Appointee Independence and Impartiality
• Discovery/Disclosure
• Contract Interpretation
• Application of the Law/ Judicial Review
• Style of Advocacy

Andrea Bjorklund BA, JD, MA, Full Professor/L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law, McGill University

Andrea is a Full Professor and the L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law at McGill University Faculty of Law. In 2017, she was named one of McGill’s Norton Rose Fulbright Scholars in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law. In Winter 2018, she was a Plumer Fellow at St. Anne’s College and a Visiting Fellow in the Law Faculty, University of Oxford. In March 2019, she was elected a vice-president of the governing Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. In July 2019, she took up the role of Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) at McGill Law for a three-year mandate.

In addition to serving as an adviser to the American Law Institute’s project on restating the U.S. law of international commercial arbitration, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. Professor Bjorklund was the inaugural ICSID Scholar-in-Residence for 2014-2015 and was Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy (OUP) from 2012 to 2015. She sits on the panel of arbitrators of the AAA’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution and on the roster of NAFTA Chapter 19 arbitrators.

Professor Bjorklund is widely published in investment law and dispute resolution and transnational contracts. She is currently working on a new book with Stefan Kröll & Franco Ferrari: Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration (Cambridge University Press).

Stephanie Cohen, BA, JD, FCIArb, Independent Arbitrator

Stephanie Cohen is a Canadian international arbitrator based in New York City.  She is admitted to practice law in both New York and Ontario, Canada, and is a member of arbitrator rosters for the ICDR and the AAA, as well as a CPR Distinguished Neutral.  She has practiced exclusively as an arbitrator since 2012, serving as tribunal chair, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, and emergency arbitrator in matters governed by ICC, ICDR, AAA, UNCITRAL and Society of Maritime Arbitrators rules.  Previously, Stephanie was Counsel in the international arbitration and commercial litigation practice groups at White & Case LLP in New York.  Stephanie is recognized by Who’s Who Legal – Future Leaders as a “top arbitrator” with an “excellent reputation universally,” and is ranked as an arbitrator in Chambers Global and Chambers USA.  She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Vice Chair of its New York Branch, Co-Chair of New York Arbitration Week 2020, a member of the ICCA-NYC Bar-CPR Working Group on Cybersecurity, and of the ICC Commission.  For more information, please visit www.cohenarbitration.com.

William G. Horton, C.Arb, FCIArb, William G. Horton Corporation

William G Horton practices as an arbitrator in international and Canadian business disputes. Prior to establishing his current practice, he served as head of litigation at two major Canadian law firms.

He has been appointed tribunal chair, sole arbitrator and party nominee in over 120 substantial disputes. His arbitration appointments include cases involving oil and gas and alternative energy disputes, nuclear facilities, telecom, satellite and wireless industry disputes, government privatisation contracts, national advertising campaigns, cross-border distribution agreements, software licensing and other intellectual property and shareholder agreements.

Mr Horton is former chair of the international litigation committee of the International Bar Association, the former co-chair of ADR Chambers' international and commercial panels, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a former executive member of ICC Canada and is on the arbitration rosters of numerous international arbitration institutions including ICDR, CPR Institute, CIETAC, and ADR Institute of Canada. Until recently he served as a member of the NAFTA 2022 committee. He is Editor in Chief of the Canadian Arbitration and Mediation Journal  and Course Director and principal instructor of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society Gold Standard© Course on Commercial Arbitration. He chairs the Arbitration Act Reform Committee of TCAS.

Mr Horton is widely recognised in Canadian and international surveys as a leading arbitrator of commercial disputes. His recognitions include: the Lionel J McGowan Award for Excellence in Dispute Resolution; Who’s Who Legal Arbitration; Euromoney 2014 shortlist for Canadian Arbitrator of the Year; Chambers Canada, Arbitration, Leading Individuals, (Band 1); Best Lawyers: 2012 Best Toronto International Arbitration Lawyer; Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory: International Commercial Arbitration (Most Frequently Recommended category); Lexpert Leading Cross-Border Lawyers; and inclusion in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2007, Ten Most Highly Regarded Individuals (Global) in the field of commercial litigation.

Benno Kimmelman BA, JD, FCIArb,  Partner Sidney Austin LLP

Louis B. Kimmelman - Partner, Sidley Austin LLP, New York Office. Benno  acts as lead counsel in complex commercial and investment treaty disputes under all the major international arbitration rules and serves as an arbitrator in international and domestic disputes.  He also represents parties involved in litigation in aid of the arbitration process, such as compelling parties to arbitrate and enforcing arbitration awards.  He is an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School and Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches International Commercial Arbitration, and has been an adviser to the American Law Institute project on the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration.  He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale University and clerked for the Honorable Leonard I. Garth, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professional Development Accreditation:

• ADRIC designation holders earn 3 Continuing Education & Engagement (CEE) points
• CPD accreditation received to date for this webinar (pending from other Law Societies across Canada):
  • Law Society of British Columbia: 1.5 hours
  • Law Society of New Brunswick: 1.5 hours

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