Document Production

The Summer 2020 Kluwer Arbitration Quiz was met with a very enthusiastic response: 271 submissions from around the world! The quiz focused on how the conduct of arbitrations may differ, depending on…

As the global pandemic has constrained in-person gatherings, many arbitration practitioners will have foregone most of their summer travel. Fortunately, for this summer’s holiday (quiz), we can all…

Document production is widely regarded as one of the most time-consuming and costly elements of international arbitration.  In its consultation regarding the proposed amendments to the ICSID…

The practice of adverse document production or disclosure is largely foreign in civil law jurisdictions like mainland China. Despite resistance, the growth of judicial practice on document production…

Document production in China - getting to maybe Document production (also known as "discovery") is still a very foreign concept in China's civil law court system. The traditional notion of "who…

Although some might have considered 2019 a bit “lackluster”,  a number of noteworthy decisions by the Paris Court of Appeal and French Supreme Court have come to refine on the now well-established…

Many will shy away from this article on account of its mere title. This is understandable considering that document production tends to be seen as a nightmarish phase in arbitration for junior,…

In the last few years, the international arbitration community has started to engage in discussions on the digital transformation of dispute resolution and on artificial intelligence (also on this…

The main concerns of parties when considering arbitration are the costs and length of arbitration proceedings (see, e.g., Queen Mary University of London 2018 International Arbitration Survey). The…