PCA submission to UNCITRAL on mechanisms of arbitrator appointment
During the 38th session of UNCITRAL Working Group III, several delegations expressed an interest in being provided with further information about possible mechanisms for the selection and appointment of members of courts or tribunals. UNCITRAL has now published a PCA submission outlining some of the procedures for the selection and appointment of presiding arbitrators or sole arbitrators that have been agreed in instruments referring to the PCA, or by disputing parties in proceedings administered by the PCA. The submission is without prejudice to the procedural or institutional context for which an appointment mechanism is designed. While the information provided draws mainly on experience with various methods of arbitrator selection for ad hoc tribunals, it may also inform the Working Group’s discussion of procedures for constituting a division of judges or arbitrators within a permanent body. (Picture: PCA intervention at 38th session of Working Group III in Vienna, October 2019).