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PDRCI holds 6 arbitration training seminar th By Arveen N. Agunday DRCI recently held conducted its 6 arbitration training seminar on July 3 to 5, 2013 at the auditorium of Sycip Salazar Hernandez th and Gatmaitan law office in Makati City. More than 30 professionals, mostly lawyers from major Philippine law firms, participated. The seminar [...]

During its meeting in March 2013, the Philippine Electricity ..Market Board (PEM Board), which governs the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), approved the accreditation of 12 new WESM arbitrators, ten of them from PDRCI. They are PDRCI President Victor P. Lazatin, Chairman Emeritus Dean Custodio O. Parlade, trustees Eduardo Ceniza, Mario Valderrama, Donemark Calimon, Ricardo [...]

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has released the official results of the Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils (FIDIC) Dispute Board Adjudicator Assessment Workshop, which was held last November 5-7, 2012. In the first of its four assessment batches, the FIDIC Assessment Panel has declared 11 candidates to have passed the FIDIC examinations: four from the Philippines, [...]

The Shanghai Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CPIT Shanghai) has invited Filipino candidates to apply for the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) of Shanghai Panel of Arbitrators. The CIETAC is one of the permanent arbitration institutions in the world. Formerly known as the Foreign Trade Arbitration Commission, CIETAC was set [...]

PDRCI held a roundtable discussion on the draft ASEAN Capital Market (“ACM”) Dispute Rules on February 28, 2013 with representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Office for Alternative Dispute Resolution (OADR). The discussion was part of the regional consultations conducted by the ASEAN Working Group on Dispute Resolution and Enforcement Mechanisms [...]

The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has designated PDRCI as the ADR center in the Philippines to resolve capital markets disputes in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The designation was made pursuant to ASEAN’s plan to achieve regional capital market integration by 2015. The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint (“AEC Blueprint”) aims to [...]

Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils (FIDIC), the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, has admitted Engr. Salvador P. Castro, Jr. as one of its Affiliate Members at its General Assembly Meeting on September 12, 2012 in Seoul, Korea. Engr. Castro is a Trustee of PDRCI and head of its Mediation Committee. A civil engineer by profession, he [...]

PDRCI joined the Philippine Institute of Arbitrators and the Philippine Institute of Construction Arbitrators and Mediators in holding an international conference on alternative dispute resolution on November 8 to 9, 2012 in Manila. The two-day event, attended by leading ADR experts, was held at the Hotel InterContinental in Makati City. PDRCI President Victor P. Lazatin [...]

The Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (PDRCI), the Philippine Institute of Arbitrators (PIArb), and the Philippine Institute of Construction Arbitrators and Mediators (PICAM) will host a two-day conference on “ADR Best Practices & PPP Opportunities” on November 8 and 9, 2012 at the InterContinental Hotel in Makati City. The conference will highlight global trends and [...]

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) recently conducted its FIDIC (Fédération Internationale Des IngénieursConseils) Contracts training workshop last August 13-17, 2012. The five-day workshop was organized by Nippon Koei, Co., Ltd. and took place at the Asian Development Bank Building (Auditorium Zone C) in Mandaluyong City. The workshop was divided into two modules, the practical use [...]