Evaluation of Damages in International Arbitration - Dossier IV

No. P668E

ISBN : 978-92-842-1363-0

The aim of this Dossier, prepared by the ICC Institute of World Business Law, is to give the reader a comprehensive overview of the difficulties encountered by arbitrators, governments and international organizations in calculating the amounts of recoverable damages in cases of international arbitration.

It is often said that an arbitral award is worth only as much as the ability to secure its enforceability. To the extent the vast majority of prayers for relief in arbitration are for money damages, an arbitral award granting damages is worth only as much as the ability to obtain payment, voluntary or compulsory, of such damages.

The Issues

When determining recoverable damages, a number of sensitive questions are raised, among them:

  • Is there a need for the adoption of a material rule that gives the arbitrator freedom to decide integral compensation of the damage, based on a caseby- case ruling in the matter of how much interest is to be charged?
  • When one of the parties is a sovereign state, how can international tribunals provide certainty and ensure transparency in the quantification of damages?
  • What are the factors arbitrators and courts in different regions consider in determining how damages should be mitigated?
  • In delay and disruption claims, how does one overcome the uncertainty for contractors in formulating their claims, for employers in defending them and for arbitrators and other tribunals in deciding them?

There is a need for both arbitrators and practitioners to understand these issues and to formulate answers to the questions raised. The present volume, written by expert arbitrators and practitioners, many of whom are affiliated with ICC’s renown Court of Arbitration, covers these and other vital issues and proposes practical solutions for resolving them.

Code ISBN : 978-92-842-1363-0
Weight : 0.4400 kgs
Number of pages : 280
Publishing date : 2006
Language : English
Format in cm : 16*23.9

Dossier IV of the ICC Institute of World Business Law

INTRODUCTION
By Richard H. Kreindler, Co-Editor

  1. General characteristics of recoverable damages in international arbitration by Paul A. Gélinas 
  2. Mitigation of damages by Alexander S. Komarov 
  3. The expectation model byJan Paulsson 
  4. The obligation to mitigate damages by Yasuhei Taniguchi 
  5. Punitive and exemplary damages in international arbitration by Jacques Werner 
  6. Damages in investor-state arbitration: applicable law and burden of proof by Hugo Perezcano Diaz 
  7. Recovery of damages for breach of an obligation of payment by Nayla Comair-Obeid 
  8. Means to be made whole: damages in the context of international investment arbitration by Henry Weisburg and Christopher Ryan 
  9. Problems of delay and disruption damages in international construction arbitration by Mr. Justice Vivian Ramsey 
  10. The parties’ costs of arbitration by Bernard Hanotiau 

CONCLUSIONS
By Yves Derains, Co-Editor

Selected Bibliography 

Case Law Index 

Key-words Index 

Contributors 

ICC at a glance 

ICC Institute of World Business Law 

Editors

Yves Derains

Richard H. Kreindler

Contributors

Richard H. Kreindler

Paul-A. Gélinas

Alexander S. Komarov

Jan Paulsson

Yasuhei Taniguchi

Jacques Werner

Hugo Perezcano Diaz

Nayla Comair-Obeid

Henry Weisburg

Christopher Ryan

Justice Vivian Ramsey

Bernard Hanotiau

Yves Derains