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Latest NewsSeptember 18, 2024September 18, 2024Secretariat Admin

PDRC paves way for PCA arbitration hearings in PH

L-R: First Secretary and Consul Jarie Osias; PDRC Executive Director Arleo Magtibay Jr.; Philippine Ambassador to The Hague Amb. J. Eduardo Malaya; PCA Secretary General Dr. Hab. Marcin Czepelak; PDRC President Rogelio Nicandro; PDRC Chairman Victor Lazatin; Legal Counsel and PCA Representative in Viet Nam Neil Nucup; Legal Counsel at the PCA in The Hague [...]

NewsMarch 26, 2024September 18, 2024Secretariat Admin

PDRCI renews partnership with Philippine Sports Commission

L-R: PDRCI Sports Arbitration Committee Chair Atty. Charlie Ho, PSC Commissioner Matthew Gaston, PSC Chairman Richard Bachmann, PDRCI Acting President Atty. Rogelio Nicandro, PDRCI Chairman Atty. Victor Lazatin, PDRCI Executive Director and Deputy Secretary General Atty. Arleo Magtibay Jr. PDRCI and the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) renewed its partnership for the promotion and formulation [...]

NewsMarch 26, 2024Philippine Dispute

China expert talks at PDRC annual meeting

NewsJuly 21, 2021September 18, 2024Secretariat Admin

PDRCI Sec Gen speaks before IBP House of Delegates

PDRCI Secretary General Roberto N. Dio discussed how the Philippines can become a center of excellence in international arbitration at the ASEAN Integration Seminar and Workshop held on January 30, 2016 at the recently concluded 22nd House of Delegates Convention of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines in General Santos City. Mr. Dio began with [...]

Philippine ADR ReviewJuly 1, 2021November 17, 2021Secretariat Admin

PDRCI Sec Gen speaks before IBP House of Delegates

PDRC Secretary General Roberto N. Dio PDRC Secretary General Roberto N. Dio discussed how the Philippines can become a center of excellence in international arbitration at the ASEAN Integration Seminar and Workshop held on January 30, 2016 at the recently concluded 22nd House of Delegates Convention of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines in General [...]

Philippine ADR ReviewApril 1, 2021December 6, 2021Secretariat Admin

PDRCI appoints new Executive Director

The Philippine Dispute Resolution Center recently announced the appointment of Atty. Arleo Antonio R. Magtibay Jr. as Executive Director effective February 2021. Atty. Magtibay has been a member of PDRC since 2015 after successfully completing the 9th Commercial Arbitration Training Seminar (CATS) held that year. Beginning 2019, he became more active in PDRC after he [...]

Philippine ADR ReviewMarch 1, 2021July 26, 2021Secretariat Admin

PDRCI attends congressional hearing on IP Code amendments

The House of Representatives Committee on Trade & Industry held on February 4, 2021 an initial hearing on House Bill No. 8062 (HB 8062), authored by Reps. Sharon Garin and Christopher De Venecia, and House Bill No. 1597 (HB 1597) authored by Reps. Michael Romero and Enrico Pineda. The Committee invited the Philippine Dispute Resolution [...]

Philippine ADR ReviewOctober 1, 2020July 26, 2021Secretariat Admin

Supreme Court limits review of CIAC award only to legal questions

In its Decision on June 22, 2020 in G.R. No. 22004548, Wyeth Philippines, Inc. v. Construction Industry Arbitration Commission et al., the Supreme Court, Third Division held that in the review of an arbitral award of the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission (“CIAC”), courts, as a general rule, must defer to the CIAC’s factual findings by [...]

Philippine ADR ReviewSeptember 1, 2020July 26, 2021Secretariat Admin

Philippines prepares to ratify Singapore Convention on Mediation

The signing of statements of support to the Singapore Convention on Mediation (SCM) by 46 countries in August last year ushered in a new era of enforcement of international commercial settlement agreements that resulted from mediation. Through the SCM, settlement agreements reached through mediation may now be enforced internationally like arbitral awards under the 1958 [...]

Philippine ADR ReviewAugust 1, 2020December 6, 2021Secretariat Admin

PDRCI comments on draft 2020 IBA Rules on Evidence

In a letter released on June 8, 2020, the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center submitted its comments to the International Bar Association (IBA) on the proposed revisions to the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (“Rules”). The revisions involved 19 rules touching on, among others, the treatment of any issues of cybersecurity [...]