Olena Perepelynska, Senior Associate with Vasil Kisil & Partners, Reports at the International Conference “Arbitration Proceedings: Legislative, Institutional and Practical Aspects”
On July 28, 2010, Kyiv hosted the international conference “Arbitration Proceedings: Legislative, Institutional and Practical Aspects”, organized by the Commercial Law Center, the Arbitration Chamber of Ukraine, the Union of Ukrainian Arbitrators, and the Association of Ukrainian Banks.
Event participants considered ways to improve and efficiently implement Ukrainian legislation in the above area, enhance credibility of arbitration courts, secure the institutional development thereof, in particular, using legal practice of foreign states, as well as matters of enforcing arbitration awards. The conference was attended by Members of Parliament and public officers of Ukraine, scholars and experts in arbitration from Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Poland, as well as members of the Ukrainian legal community.
Olena Perepelynska, Senior Associate with Vasil Kisil & Partners, was invited to deliver a report on “Review Of Foreign Laws On Arbitration Courts”, in which she covered key models of legislative regulations on the above and enforcement of arbitral awards, focusing at that on arbitration laws of major European states. The presentation outlined hands-on recommendations as to improving administration of arbitration courts and the legislative regulation thereof, inter alia, proposals regarding required enhancing of arbitrators’ expertise and professionalism, improving judicial practice in arbitration-related cases, developing and applying codes of ethics for arbitration, designated to strengthen moral responsibility of arbitrators as well, and using international standards in arbitration proceedings, for instance, the IBA (International Bar Association) Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration.
Event participants considered ways to improve and efficiently implement Ukrainian legislation in the above area, enhance credibility of arbitration courts, secure the institutional development thereof, in particular, using legal practice of foreign states, as well as matters of enforcing arbitration awards. The conference was attended by Members of Parliament and public officers of Ukraine, scholars and experts in arbitration from Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Poland, as well as members of the Ukrainian legal community.
Olena Perepelynska, Senior Associate with Vasil Kisil & Partners, was invited to deliver a report on “Review Of Foreign Laws On Arbitration Courts”, in which she covered key models of legislative regulations on the above and enforcement of arbitral awards, focusing at that on arbitration laws of major European states. The presentation outlined hands-on recommendations as to improving administration of arbitration courts and the legislative regulation thereof, inter alia, proposals regarding required enhancing of arbitrators’ expertise and professionalism, improving judicial practice in arbitration-related cases, developing and applying codes of ethics for arbitration, designated to strengthen moral responsibility of arbitrators as well, and using international standards in arbitration proceedings, for instance, the IBA (International Bar Association) Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration.