The Law and Practice of Commercial Arbitration by Richard H McLaren and Earl Edward Palmer QC

Abstract

The reviewed book is composed of the text by the authors (151 pages), six appendices: (a) Arbitration Acts; (b) Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Acts; (c) Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Acts; (d) International Arbitration Rules; (e) Forms and (f) Precedents, covering 256 pages (155 to 411), table of cases (16 pages: xi to xxvi), table of statutes (12 pages: xxvii to xxxviii) and index (10 pages: 413–422). As the authors explain in their introduction the book is organised ‘chronologically in a way that will be understandable to all involved in the arbitration process’ (page xli). The chapters of the book are titled as follows: (1) The nature of arbitration; (2) Agreements for arbitration; (3) The courts and arbitration; (4) Appointment of arbitrators; (5) The hearing of an arbitration; (6) Preparing the award; (7) Costs and arbitrators' fees; (8) Enforcing the award; (9) Impeaching the award; (10) The proper law of the contract; (11) International commercial arbitration.