Collection of Procedural Decisions in ICC Arbitration/Receuil des decisions de procedure dans l'arbitrage CCI (1993-1996) by Dominique Hascher

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Collection of Procedural Decisions in ICC Arbitration/Receuil des decisions de procedure dans l'arbitrage CCI (1993–1996), by Dominique Hascher. Published by Kluwer Law International, The Hague; ICC Publishing S.A., Paris, New York (1997, 312 pp.). Hardcover. Price NLG125/US$78/£49. ISBN 90-411-0413-5. In the vein of Kluwer's and the ICC's published Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards , the Collection of Procedural Decisions in ICC Arbitration brings together, for the first time, a number of expurgated procedural decisions (orders) made by ICC Tribunals between 1993 and 1996. The decisions, of which there are 24, have all previously been published in the Journal du Droit International (Clunet) together with accompanying observations in French. A feature of international arbitration and, in particular, arbitration under the ICC arbitration rules is its procedural flexibility. Under the 1988 ICC Arbitration Rules, the rules governing the proceedings were simply those resulting from the Rules or those which the parties or the tribunal might settle. Article 15 of the 1998 ICC Arbitration Rules conserves that flexibility. However, the price paid for greater flexibility is uncertainty and …