Course details
Why Attend
Effective dispute resolution helps minimize the costs and adverse effects to relationships that often arise from the commercial disputes. If informal negotiation fails to resolve a dispute, mediation or arbitration can often be the next best option in order to avoid litigation in court. This course will give participants an insight into dispute resolution from the perspective of a lawyer. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the main differences between the various dispute resolution techniques with a particular focus on arbitration, in order to reduce the likelihood of disputes leading to court cases.
Course Methodology
In this interactive training course participants will frequently work in pairs as well as in larger groups to complete exercises as well as regional and international case studies.
Course Objectives
- Identify the right course of action to resolve a legal dispute
- Reduce the possibility of disputes leading to legal action
- Apply national and international legal requirements for dispute resolution
- Employ arbitration knowledge to negotiate terms
- Use case law to achieve a favorable outcome for their organization
Target Audience
This course is suitable for professionals within all industries who are involved in contract management and resolving disputes including, but not limited to, project managers, contract managers, procurement managers, supply chain managers, contractors, architects, developers and engineers. This course would also highly benefit in-house council and legal advisors new to the region who require the fundamentals of dispute resolution in the GCC.
Target Competencies
- Litigation
- Arbitration
- Mediation
- Negotiation
- GCC Dispute Resolution Frameworks
Course Outline
- Fundamentals of dispute resolution
- Overview of the dispute resolution process
- Methods of dispute resolution including:
- Litigation
- Arbitration
- Collaborative law
- Mediation
- Conciliation
- Negotiation
- Facilitation
- Introduction to international High Court litigation processes
- Path of a claim
- Pre-action matters
- Court documents
- Case management
- Disclosure
- During the trial
- Judgement
- Dispute resolution in the GCC
- The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system
- Early neutral evaluation
- Negotiation
- Conciliation
- Mediation
- Arbitration
- Importance of Alternative Dispute Resolution
- The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system
- Law systems
- Civil law system
- Codification
- Subgroups
- Common law system
- Court decisions
- Statutes
- International arbitration
- Introduction to international arbitration
- Institutional versus 'ad hoc' arbitration
- Introduction to mediation: The process and its principles
- Arbitration in the GCC
- Drafting international arbitration clauses
- The arbitration award and its enforcement
- Recent international arbitration case law
- Advantages and disadvantages of:
- Arbitration
- Litigation
- Mediation
Course Location
About PLUS Specialty Training
As a division of Meirc, PLUS Specialty Training provides highly specialized, technical and industry-specific training courses using leading freelance subject matter experts, practitioners, and technical trainers.
- Public / open training courses are delivered in:
- 3 or 5 days
- English or Arabic
- Dubai or Abu Dhabi
- In-house / in-company courses are available in all topics, upon request
- Training courses are facilitated by leading freelance subject matter experts
- Due to the advanced nature of the topics delivered, trainers who are senior practitioners in their field are sourced, recruited, and contracted to share their relevant experience and expertise
- PLUS ensures that all trainers, content, and facilitation meet Meirc’s high and reputable standards of quality, reliability, and integrity
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