SIAC Arb SIAC Arbitration Rules (2025)
SIAC Arb
SIAC Arbitration Rules (2025)
50.1 Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the Tribunal shall have the power to decide all procedural and evidential matters.
50.2 In addition to the other powers specified in these Rules, unless otherwise agreed by the parties or prohibited by the mandatory rules of any applicable law, the Tribunal shall have the power to:
(a) direct any party to give evidence by affidavit or in any other form;
(b) administer oaths or take affirmations of the parties and witnesses;
(c) conduct such enquiries as may appear to the Tribunal to be necessary or expedient;
(d) determine whether, and to what extent, the Tribunal should itself take the initiative in ascertaining the facts or the law;
(e) order the correction or rectification of any contract, subject to the law governing such contract;
(f) order any party to produce to the Tribunal and to the other parties for inspection, in a manner to be determined by the Tribunal, any document, property, or item in its possession or control which the Tribunal considers relevant to the case and material to its outcome;
(g) order the preservation, storage, sale, or disposal, of any document, property, or item which is or forms part of the subject matter of the dispute;
(h) direct any party to take or refrain from taking actions to ensure that any award which may be made in the arbitration is not rendered ineffectual by the dissipation of assets by a party or otherwise;
(i) decide, where appropriate, any issue not expressly or impliedly raised in the submissions of a party provided such issue has been clearly brought to the notice of all other parties and all other parties have been given an adequate opportunity to respond or provide submissions;
(j) determine the procedural law or any other law applicable to the arbitration;
(k) determine any claim of legal or other privilege;
(l) make any necessary directions, including a suspension of proceedings, for the parties to adopt any amicable dispute resolution methods such as mediation under the SIAC-SIMC AMA Protocol; and
(m) except as provided in these Rules, extend or abridge any period of time prescribed under these Rules or by its directions.
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