Introduction

The role of "experts" in the context is to assist, educate and advise the arbitral tribunal, in a fair and impartial manner, in specialist fields (eg, technical, forensic accountancy, legal etc) in which the arbitrators (or some of them) do not themselves have relevant expertise in specific issues in dispute between the parties. Historically, the practices of arbitrators and advocates in relation to the use of experts, from both common law and civil law countries, have tended to mirror the procedures and techniques adopted by the national court systems into which they ...