ACICA Rules Consultation Process

Object of this survey

ACICA has commenced a public consultation process for the proposed new ACICA Arbitration Rules. This consultation follows extensive work undertaken by the ACICA Rules Committee to consider recent developments in international arbitration practice and procedure. A consultation draft, incorporating proposed changes, has been developed and may be downloaded from the ACICA Website here.

The ACICA Arbitration Rules were last revised in 2015 and came into effect on 1 January 2016 (a copy of the 2016 edition of the ACICA Arbitration Rules may be downloaded here). The current review process has focused on areas such as multiple contracts, arbitrator appointment, arbitration procedure (including preliminary disposition of issues), time and cost, third party funding and ADR processes. The proposed revisions are aimed at building on ACICA’s established practice of providing a just, efficient, timely and quick, cost effective arbitral process.

In this survey we have set out each of the amendments to the ACICA Arbitration Rules proposed by the ACICA Rules Committee for adoption. The genesis of, and reasons for, these proposals is outlined in the ACICA webinar held on 5 August 2020, which may be viewed here.

The objective of this survey is to enable respondents to indicate whether you consider that key proposed amendments to the ACICA Arbitration Rules should be made and to provide comments, where applicable, on those proposed amendments. If you have no comments on a particular amendment, there is no requirement to provide a response on that item.

We thank all respondents for their time and effort in providing your very useful feedback on the proposed amendments.

ACICA Rules Committee, 2020