Members of the international legal community gathered at a special event yesterday evening to celebrate the opening of the ICC Hearing Centre.
Conveniently located in the centre of Paris, the ICC Hearing Centre is dedicated to arbitration hearings and other forms of commercial dispute resolution. It is the first such facility in Paris and can be used for disputes arising anywhere in the world.
The 800 square meter Hearing Centre has opened in response to growing demand from business and legal communities. Last year, the number of new cases filed with the ICC International Court of Arbitration hit a record high of 599.
“The increasing pace of globalization in recent years has naturally led to a growing number of business disputes worldwide,” said Jason Fry, Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. “ICC has drawn on its many years of experience monitoring arbitration and mediations proceedings to create the custom-designed Hearing Centre,” he added.
The Hearing Centre is specially designed to meet practitioner’s needs and conduct hearings in optimal conditions. It comprises 10 soundproofed and secured rooms fully equipped with microphones, Internet connections, air conditioning, TV screens and projection systems. The rooms vary in size from 23 square meters to 110 square meters, with seating capacity up to 40 people. The largest rooms are also equipped with translation booths.
ICC Arbitration is the most trusted system of commercial arbitration in the world. The ICC International Court of Arbitration has received more than 15,500 cases since its founding in 1923.
The ICC Hearing Centre is available for any kind of institutional or ad hoc arbitration hearings as well as for the conduct of amicable dispute resolution (ADR) procedures. It may be reserved for hearings that use the ICC Rules of Arbitration and ICC ADR Rules, and those that do not.
Please visit
www.icchearingcentre.org
to review rates or to make a reservation.
For more information about ICC’s Dispute Resolution Services, please visit
www.iccwbo.org/court