Abstract

Cyberattacks are becoming an imminent threat to the arbitration community including law firms, arbitrators, and arbitration institutions. Attacks targeted at legal practitioners as well as service providers distract and severely undermine the course of legal proceedings. This article aims to analyze how cyberattacks affect arbitration proceedings, law firms, and arbitration institutions by looking at cases and recent events. It considers the complex evidential issues arising out of cyberbreach and argues that hacked evidence can be considered as unlawfully obtained evidence leading to ...