Petr Briza, Author at Kluwer Arbitration Blog

Arbitration Agreement, Arbitration clause, Czech Republic, New York Convention

Czech Supreme Court in Line with Prevailing International Practice: Arbitration Clause Contained in an Exchange of Simple Emails Found Valid

Petr Briza (Bříza & Trubač)/May 2, 2020May 4, 2020 /Leave a comment

The 1958 New York Convention (“NY Convention” or “Convention”) was adopted in the era when probably the fastest form of communication in which an arbitration agreement could have been concluded was via telegrams. The Convention requires written form for an arbitration agreement (clause) to be valid, but the electronic communication of our times had not…

Applicable Law

International Arbitration In London From The Perspective Of A Civil Law Lawyer: Rome I Regulation And Contractual Penalties

Petr Briza, Tomáš Hokr (Bříza & Trubač)/May 24, 2017May 11, 2017 /2 Comments

YIAG

International arbitration takes a great pride in being flexible, adjustable and thus very responsive to the needs of the parties involved. Indeed, in terms of international arbitration imagination has virtually no limits – nothing really prevents parties to an arbitration agreement from agreeing on an arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, in the Spanish…