The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) Newly Revised Arbitration Rules: Incorporating the New UNCITRAL Model Rules of 2010 and Expanding the Centre's Role as an Appointing Authority
Article from: TDM 2 (2011), in Roundup of Articles
Introduction
Notwithstanding the political events that Egypt has witnessed in the early part of 2011, on 1 March 2011, the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration ("CRCICA" or "the Centre") adopted a new set of arbitration rules emulating the recently revised UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules ("Model Rules"), which entered into force on 15 August 2010. The Centre is the second institution to do so, coming in right after the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration in Malaysia, which adopted the new Model Rules very shortly after they were released. The CRCICA, which ...