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In a decision rendered on August 7, 2019 in G.R. No. 18849, Camp John Hay Development Corporation v. Charter Chemical and Coating Corporation, the Supreme Court (SC) ruled that the dispute resolution clause in the parties’ subsequent contracts, stipulating that “[a]ll actions involving this Contract shall be instituted only in the proper courts of Pasig [...]

  In a decision rendered on July 24, 2019 in G.R. No. 211044, Jacques A. Dupasquier et al. v. Ascendas (Philippines) Corporation, the Supreme Court (SC) clarified the doctrine of separability in arbitration (i.e., the arbitration clause is separate from the main contract and is not affected by its invalidity) and held that an arbitration [...]

PDRC Secretary General Roberto Dio and Asst. Sec. Gen. Francisco Pabilla, Jr. met last December with Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) President Egon Cayosa and Philippine International Center for Conflict Resolution (PICCR) President Sixto Antonio to explore how they could work together to promote alternative dispute resolution (ADR), particularly arbitration. PDRC gave the IBP [...]

The Philippine Dispute Resolution Center (PDRC) successfully held back-to-back road shows last month in Davao City and Gen. Santos City to generate interest in and promote alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as an alternative to costly litigation. The first road show was on Februar y 7, 2020 in Davao City in partnership with the School of [...]

PDRC Sec. Gen. Roberto Dio PDRCI Secretary General Roberto Dio spoke on the domestic application of the Singapore Convention on Mediation in the Philippines at a colloquium hosted by the Department of Justice on December 9, 2019 at the Diamond Hotel Manila. The colloquium aimed to generate awareness of the benefits of adopting the United [...]

By Lindolf F. de Castro In its January 2020 issue, Financier Worldwide reported that U.S. federal courts now allow parties to apply discovery procedure in U.S. courts to produce evidence in a foreign or international tribunal through 28 U.S.C. Section 1782. Section 1782 grants a petitioner the right to request a U.S. federal court to [...]

Atty. Salvador Panga, Jr. responding to a question by one of the participants. PDRCI has collaborated with the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPhl) in holding a five-day intellectual property (IP) and arbitration seminar for lawyers and non-lawyers. Sixty-three participants, most of them lawyers who earned mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE) credits, joined the [...]

By: Francisco Pabilla, Jr. In his speech at the PDRCI General Membership Meeting on July 11, 2019, Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin affirmed that arbitration offers a better alternative than litigation in settling disputes for business and industry. The Chief Justice said that while the benefits of alternative modes of dispute resolution (ADR) like arbitration had [...]

On July 17, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued the 2019 Rules on Mediation in the National Prosecution. Under the new rules, the civil aspect of criminal complaints for simple theft, qualified theft, estafa, criminal negligence resulting in damage to property, and violations of the Bouncing Checks Law shall be referred to mandatory mediation when [...]