Mauritius Hosts a High-Level International Arbitration Workshop

The International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) in collaboration with the Permanent Court of Arbitration will organise a high level international workshop on 3-4 May 2012 at  Trou aux Biches resort. In addition to the participation of Mauritian Judges some 25 foreign delegates comprising Chief Justices and Judges from the Southern African countries will attend the workshop.

The workshop will be run under the auspices of the ICCA with assistance from the Mauritius Office of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) and volunteers from the Young ICCA Africa Desk. It will be conducted by Professor Albert Jan van Berg, a world pre-eminent specialist on the New York Convention, and Ms Marike Paulsson. The workshop which will focus  on the implementation by national court Judges of the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition of Foreign Arbitral Awards will be an opportunity for capacity building amongst Mauritian and African Judges in implementation of the New York Convention.

Based in The Hague the PCA was established by the 1899 Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes. As the first global mechanism for the settlement of inter-state disputes, the Arbitration Court  was created to facilitate immediate recourse to arbitration for countries seeking a peaceful resolution of their differences through third-party intervention. The Republic of Mauritius is a Contracting Party to the 1899 Convention.

The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, also known as the New York Convention or the New York Arbitration Convention, was signed at New York on 10 June 1958. It is considered to be the most important legal cornerstone of international business arbitration and is also acclaimed to be the most successful international convention in international private law.