HALT's Report Card graded fee arbitration systems in six categories: (1) whether lawyers are required to participate in binding arbitration at a client's request; (2) the ease of initiating arbitration; (3) the amount of state bar publicity of fee arbitration; (4) the program's reliance on non-lawyer arbitrators; (5) whether non-binding mediation is offered in addition to arbitration; and (6) how
the system enforces awards.
Not exact matches
Until the new UAE Federal Arbitration Law is enacted,
enforcing an onshore Dubai - seated arbitration
award through the Dubai courts will continue to be fraught with difficulties, including uncertainty (there is no
system of binding precedent in the UAE), significant delay (enforcement proceedings can take up to three years), and costs (legal costs are not recoverable in the Dubai Courts).
According to Alexander Hansebout, a dispute resolution practitioner at Altius in Belgium, companies are finding it difficult to
enforce awards against the DRC and its state - owned entities because, simply, «the country has no serious legal
system in place.»
As the matter limped through the Nigerian justice
system, IPCO sought again in 2008 to
enforce the
award in England on the grounds that the Nigerian proceedings could take years.