From Transnational Principles to European Rules of Civil Procedure: Reflections on the Potential of Case Management for the Resolution of Mass DisputesThis paper is based on a Feasibility Study of Case Management of Mass Disputes commenced at the request of The Hague Institute for Global Justice (THIGJ) by the author. Prof Dr Deborah R Hensler served as project advisor to the study. The author and the project advisor would like to thank THIGJ for the support it provided for the study. A related paper discussing solely the judicial case management of mass disputes was published in the Uniform Law Review (Ianika N Tzankova, ‘Case Management: The Stepchild of Mass Claim Dispute Resolution’ (2014) 19 Uniform Law Review 245–272).

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
Evgeniy S. Razdyakonov ◽  
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Igor N. Tarasov ◽  

The article examines some of the results of the procedural reform in terms of the resolution of corporate disputes by courts. The authors formulated four main theses that reflect the essence of this reform: the division of competence in corporate disputes between courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts, the expansion of the arbitrability of corporate disputes, the implementation of the principle of one-time consideration of a corporate dispute, the consolidation of new subjects of civil proceedings in corporate disputes not named in the general part of the Commercial Procedure Code of the RF and the Code of Civil Procedure of the RF.


Amicus Curiae ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-417
Author(s):  
Michael Reynolds

This article explores the evolution of a subordinate judicial office of the Official Referee which was the revolutionary creation of the Judicature Commission of 1872. What is described here is the innovation and evolution of a rudimentary form of case management more than 70 years before its formal introduction in the English courts under the Civil Procedure Rules. This article considers evidence of that evolution as well as the innovations and experiments of judges ahead of their time: Sir Francis Newbolt and his successor Official Referees. It argues that the consensual and business-like approach adopted by Newbolt and others facilitated earlier settlement by means of judicial encouragement during discussions in chambers at an early interlocutory stage. It considers the extent to which Newbolt’s Scheme focused on what Marc Galanter has described as ‘quality of outcome’ and attempts to place this study in the context of the approach taken by Galanter. Such study would not be complete without reference to the work of the late Simon Roberts, which saw civil courts as being transformed into instruments of structured negotiation.


Author(s):  
Veneziano Anna

This chapter looks at the relationship between the ‘Model Clauses for the use of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts’ and Article 3 of the Hague Principles. The Model Clauses were drafted with the aim to give parties to international commercial contracts a range of options in order to make the most appropriate use of the UNIDROIT Principles (UPICC) in accordance with their interests and the specific circumstances of the case. At the same time, their goal is also to raise awareness on the variety of possible ways the UPICC may be used as an advantageous tool in international contracting and dispute resolution. Being drafted as choice of law clauses, they fit within the scope of Article 3 of the Hague Principles. Article 3 opens the way towards a wider acceptance of internationally recognized non-national codifications, expressly allowing the choice of ‘rules of law’, irrespective of whether the dispute is solved by an arbitrator or a national court, when such rules are generally accepted on an international, supranational, or regional level as a neutral and balanced set of rules. The UPICC are expressly cited, in the commentary to Article 3, as ‘rules of law’ satisfying such requirements.


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