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National and local government agencies are now required to include provisions on the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms in all contracts involving projects with the private sector. This is the mandate of Executive Order No. 78 (EO 78), which was issued by the President on July 4, 2012. EO 78 mandates the inclusion [...]

PDRCI held its annual general membership meeting on July 3, 2012 at its office at the Commerce & Industry Plaza, McKinley Hills, Taguig City and reelected the Board of Trustees to serve for the term July 2012 to June 2013. In his report to the members, President Atty. Victor P. Lazatin highlighted PDRCI’s achievements for [...]

The Philippine Supreme Court recently allowed Tuna Processing, Inc. (TPI), a foreign corporation doing business in the Philippines without a license, to bring suit to enforce an arbitral award rendered by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution in California, United States against Philippine Kingford, Inc., a domestic corporation. In its Decision rendered on February 29, [...]

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) recently released its Dispute Board Manual to assist stakeholders in setting up dispute boards to resolve disputes relating to the implementation of Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) Loan projects, among others. JICA advocates the use of dispute boards, which have “proven to be a remarkably successful method of avoiding and [...]

In a Decision ccrendered on By Arveen N. Agunday March 13, 2012 in CA-G.R. CV No. 96502, Takenaka Corporation and Asahikosan Corporation vs. Philippine International Air Terminals Company, Inc. (PIATCO), the Philippine Court of Appeals threw out PIATCO’s appeal questioning the enforcement of the 2005 Orders issued by London’s High Court of Justice, which directed [...]

In a Judgment rendered on July 13, 2011 in Civil Appeal No. 59 of 2000, CRW Joint Operation v. PT Perusahan Gas Negara (Persero) TBK, the Singapore Court of Appeals (SCA) clarified the dispute resolution mechanism under the 1999 FIDIC Red Book, formally known as the “Conditions of Contract for Construction: For Building and Engineering [...]

The Asian Lawyer, the regional edition of The American Lawyer, recently took note of the growing arbitration practice in Asia. In his article “Arbitration at Arm's Length: Are U.S. Firms Missing an Opportunity in Asia?,” writer Ben Lewis observed in the magazine’s January 30, 2012 issue that Asian arbitration has become a growth industry. The [...]

The PDRCI, in partnership with the American Bar Association, Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) and the Office for Alternative Dispute Resolution (OADR), will conduct a basic training seminar in commercial arbitration law and practice for approximately 50 lawyers of the Department of Justice, the OADR and the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC) [...]

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPO) and the World Intellectual Property Office Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO AMC), in cooperation with the PDRCI, held a mediation workshop for intellectual property law practitioners last December 12 and 13, 2011 at the Intellectual Property Center in Bonifacio Global City The two-day training workshop was led [...]

In October 17, 2011, the PDRCI Board of Trustees approved amendments to its Administrative Guidelines on the challenge to arbitrators. The amendments will take effect on January 1, 2012. Under the revised Guidelines, after an arbitrator rejects a challenge, the party who did not initiate the challenge has 15 days from notice of such rejection [...]