Date: Wednesday, 15th March 2023

Speakers: Sarah Grenfell and Sarah Mather of CMS Cameron McKenna

Topic: Some case studies, follow by discussion about non- standard ad hoc ADR procedures

Cost: Free due to generous support from ArbDB Chambers

Recording:  Available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/bk1krNaTsfQ 

Members Tony Marks, Michael Cover, Paul Rose, Robert Sliwinski, Stephen Bate and Clerk to Chambers, enjoyed the excellent hospitality.

Congratulations LCIA 👏🏻

ArbDB Member, Michael Cover, will be one of the Lead Trainers on this Course, to be held virtually from 28th April to 8th May 2023 and run by the AIADR in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Michael is really looking forward to this course and to sharing his skills and expertise in this major capacity-building initiative.

• AIADR Mediation Training Course Flyer

• Mediation Training Course Registration Form

Peter McQueen of ArbDB Chambers is the speaker at the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (MLAANZ) mini conference taking place on Tuesday 28th February in Sydney.

Peter will be speaking on “Latest Developments on Australian COGSA, mis-delivery of cargo after discharge and charterparty laytime/demurrage disputes.

Further information can be obtained here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=1014292&

ArbDB Members Paul Rose and Tony Marks will be sitting as arbitrators, along with many colleagues from the world of arbitration,  in the 8thFox Williams/CIArb 2023 pre-moot.

This will be held on 25-26 February at the International Dispute Resolution Centre. Thirty teams from across the world will be taking part.

The Fox Williams/CIArb pre-moot for the Vis moot is one of the most highly regarded pre-moots. It attracts teams from across the globe and is renowned for its exceptionally high-quality of administration, judging and feedback.

Tony Marks commented: “ Peter Ashford (Fox Williams) and CIArb are to be congratulated on building up the London pre-moot from a small number of teams in 2016 to its present size. It is a pleasure to be involved as an arbitrator and to witness the high calibre of the teams taking part."

ArbDB Chambers Member and leading arbitrator and mediator, Steffen Pedersen, will be attending this Session as an observer on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). The Session will be held at the UN Headquarters in New York.

This Session will tackle a range of dispute resolution topics, including early dismissal and preliminary determination, technology-related dispute resolution and adjudication and the UNCITRAL Notes on Organising Arbitral Proceedings. UNCITRAL, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, is a subsidiary body of the UN General Assembly responsible for helping to facilitate international trade and investment and Working Group II is one of the UNCITRAL Working Groups focused on dispute resolution and arbitration and mediation in particular.

ArbDB Chambers is pleased to highlight the report from the January edition of e-solver, a publication of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb),  on CIArb’s role as the sole provider of Arbitration Referral Services to the Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA)

Chambers’ members Robert Sliwinski, Paul Rose and Michael Cover are on the Panel of Arbitrators for Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) Arbitrations.

Since becoming the sole provider in December 2021, CIArb has handled the PCA’s management and administration of its arbitration service, thereby supporting the PCA with its regulatory agenda.

Robert Sliwinski, together with others, has helped to develop and deliver specialist Pubs Code training for arbitrators.

In a recent press release, Catherine Dixon, Director General, CIArb, thanked Robert Sliwinski for supporting CIArb in developing and delivering the training:

“We are pleased to have been able to provide the PCA with a high-quality referral service, and reporting over the past year and look forward to continuing to work with the PCA and our panel of Pubs Code Arbitrators.”

Fiona Dickie, the Pubs Code Adjudicator stated, “It is great to see the progress CIArb has made in the first year of the contract”, adding that, “we have seen a significant reduction in open cases, closer monitoring of the arbitrator standards and an improved published quarterly report.” In the PCA’s three-year strategy published in August last year, Ms Dickie restated her commitment to providing a quality arbitration service for pub companies and tied tenants, a key part of which was delivering Pubs Code training and assessment for arbitrators, building on the arbitrator standards that the PCA already had in place.

The Pubs Code came into effect in 2016 and regulates the relationship between all pub companies owning 500 or more tied pubs in England and Wales and their tied tenants. The PCA is responsible for enforcing the Code and providing an arbitration service for disputes between pub companies and tied tenants about Code compliance. The PCA can either arbitrate the dispute itself or appoint another arbitrator to do so. Alternative arbitrators have been appointed in most cases since 2019.

Start:  09:00 hrs (UK time)  - BY ZOOM ONLY

Date:   Wednesday, 18th January 2023

Speaker: Mark Beer, OBE

Topic: His experiences of ADR in the UAE and reflections on the mediation scene in the UK and internationally

Cost:  Free due to generous support from ArbDB Chambers

Booking: Please e-mail Dave Owen (dwo@pengaron.co.uk) who will send Zoom link at least 24 hours beforehand.  If you do not receive it from him by noon the previous day, please e-mail him.

Recording: The meeting is available to view at : https://www.arbdb.com/webinars

OR

https://youtu.be/sVebOYzwMMY

NOTE Attendance counts towards the CMC’s CPD requirements.  It may count for CPD for other organisations.

Start: 09:00 hrs (UK time) - BY ZOOM ONLY

Date: Wednesday, 16th November 2022 

Speaker: Mary Banham-Hall LLB, Retired Solicitor (40+ years)  Family and Civil Mediator (20+ years). Founder of Focus Mediation 

Topic: A view from the rear-view mirror – what I wish I’d  known.  

• How to revolutionise the mediation market - and why now is the right time  

• What I did and why repeating it repeatedly might just work (it did before with Family Mediation) 

• Change.org?  

• Lobbying? 

• Resources to put an unanswerable case that may be ignored but cannot be denied 

• Avoid getting buried in an uneconomic landslide and what does that look like? 

• Self-preservation and success versus self destructive idealism 

• Questions, answers and conversations 

Cost: Free due to generous support from ArbDB Chambers

Booking: Please e-mail Dave Owen (dwo@pengaron.co.uk) who  will send Zoom link at least 24 hours beforehand. If you do not receive it from him by noon the previous day, please e-mail him.

Recording: The meeting will be recorded and the recording are usually  available within about 3 days after each meeting - it (and recordings of previous meetings) can be accessed at https://www.arbdb.com/webinars

Recording available at: https://youtu.be/TjQx6xyxe04

NOTE Attendance counts towards the CMC’s CPD  requirements. It may count for CPD for other organisations.

ArbDB Chambers regrets to announce  that our long standing colleague, John Redmond, has passed away after a short illness.

John was one of our founding members and was a good friend and a valued colleague. He was a leading and highly respected adjudicator, mediator and arbitrator and also wrote one of the leading books on Construction Adjudication. 

He will be very much missed by all of us at ArbDB Chambers, not least for his collegiality, unfailing good humour and wise counsel.

John’s funeral will take place on Friday 25th November 2022 at St. Andrew’s Church, Chew Magna.

Further details are available from Michael W Rowe, Funeral Directors, 2, The Vinery, Harford Square, Chew Magna BS40 8RD. 

Telephone: 01275 332565