News
2000

ICC Court expands its web site

The home page of the ICC Court's web site welcomes visitors with an assortment of news items containing links to fuller information and related pages.

On the left-hand side of the page is a list of ICC's various dispute resolution services. Each item in the list gives access to a page presenting the different aspects of the service in a standard pattern: introduction, model clause, rules (in the various languages available), guidelines for filing a request, a description of the procedure, and information on costs and contacts. Visitors can jump immediately to the aspect that interests them by clicking on the relevant title at the top of the page. The icons on the right of the home page give visitors quick access to four features of particular interest: the ICC Rules, summary statistics, a cost calculator and the composition of the Court.

The list of services on the left is followed by a list of resources, including key legal instruments. This part of the site is still under development. The "Awards" link, for instance, will shortly be filled out with a list of ICC awards that have been published over the years, giving full references of the publications in which they may be found. One of these, of course, is the Court's own Bulletin, which has a number of pages on the site specifically devoted to it. They have recently been expanded to include a list of the contents of all back issues, to help visitors select those they may wish to order.

With the launch of the French pages, the Court's web site widens its outreach. Internationalism is a hallmark of ICC arbitration, as reflected in the diverse geographical origins of the parties and the arbitrators, not to mention the Court members themselves and the staff of the Secretariat.

Over the years, the ICC Court's links with the francophone world have been many and varied. Paris has been the home of the Court for most of its life and its past chairmen and secretaries general have included a number of French and French-speaking personalities. Indeed, francophone lawyers and the francophone world at large have played an important part in making international commercial arbitration what it is today.

If you wish to bookmark the French site for future use, its address is: http://www.iccwbo.org/index_cour.asp