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Security for costs in international arbitration


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Index

  • Abuse of process
  • Access to justice
    • cf access to the tribunal 9.21
    • bilateral 2.46
    • limitations on 2.14, 2.46
    • maintaining 2.46
    • public interest in 2.14
    • security for costs to enhance 9.34
    • stifling principle 2.47
    • tension with finality 2.14-2.17
  • American costs rule
    • bear own costs 2.4
    • history and purpose 2.5
  • Appeal in arbitration
  • Applications for security for costs
    • costs of 6.13-6.16
    • determining Orders
    • making and responding to 6.1-6.10
    • not a mini trial 5.31
    • promptly made 6.1
  • Arbitration agreements
    • consent marginalised 7.5
    • pre-dispute agrements the norm 7.5
  • Arbitration’s expansionism 7.4
  • Arbitrator appointment
    • constraints on 8.22
  • arguments against security for costs
    • English idiosyncrasy 8.43
    • creditors, unfair to 8.73
    • denies procedural fairness 8.26-8.37
    • inappropriate to ICC arbitration 8.44-8.51
    • inhibits trade 8.39
    • nature of arbitration, contrary to 8.38-8.51
    • party autonomy, contrary to 8.2-8.25
    • party consent, contrary to 7.1-7.8
    • prejudges substantive merits 8.30-8.36
    • respondent assumed the risk 7.9-7.46
    • summarised 1.14
    • transnationalisation, contrary to 8.40-8.42
    • tribunals’ power to stay arbitration 8.59-8.71
    • unnecessary 8.52-8.38
  • aristotle
    • equal, not identical, treatment 9.25
  • assumption of risk
  • awards, review of
    • improper merits review 8.59
    • public policy ground 8.59
  • Burden of proof
  • Cautio judicatum solvi
    • disappearance in France 2.1
  • Clausula rebus sic stantibus
  • Competitive institutionalisation 7.4
  • consequences of security
  • Coppée-Lavalin v Ken-Ren
  • corporate responsibility

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    corporations
    • emergence 2.9
    • security as protection against 2.9
  • cost and delay
    • security for costs to control 9.17-9.20
  • costs
    • American rule 2.5
    • applications for security, of 6.13-6.16
    • courts’ ability to award 2.2
    • enforcement of awards 9.6
    • English rule 2.5
    • general rule 6.21
    • interest on costs 6.21
    • internal costs 6.21
    • need for proportionality 9.18
    • pre-commencement costs 6.21
    • reason for non-payment 9.9
    • tribunals’ concern for 9.18 n 40
  • costs follow the event
  • costs shifting
    • late development 4.9
    • meaning 2.5
    • sine qua non of security for costs 8.74
  • Creditor protection
    • alternative juridical basis of security 2.18-2.23
  • cross-undertakings
  • Departmental Advisory Committee
  • discretion to grant security
  • due process paranoia
  • enforcement of awards
    • history and relevance 2.7
  • enforcement issues
    • is security unnecessary? 8.52-8.58
    • tribunals’ power to stay arbitration 8.59-8.71
  • English costs rule
  • equal treatment
    • liability for costs and damages 9.31
    • Model Law Art 17G 9.31
    • not identical treatment 9.24-9.31
    • security for costs to enhance 9.24-9.31
  • ethics
    • difficulty of enforcement 9.15
    • guerilla tactics Guerilla tactics
    • standards 9.15
  • European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
    • applies to both parties 2.48
    • French approach 8.8
    • Evolution of security for costs 1750, 1755, 1786 2.6
    • decline in Europe 2.1
    • England 2.2
    • English response to European security 2.7
    • residence abroad 2.6
    • Roman law 2.1
  • exceptional circumstances
    • doubted in Swiss arbitrations 4.16-4.19
    • for natural persons 2.49
    • fraudulent, abusive, extravagant claim 4.13
    • fundamental financial deterioration 4.13
    • ICC approach 4.2, 4.8-4.14
    • more than financial weakness 4.13
    • not required in LCIA arbitrations 4.45
    • third party funding 4.13
    • unpaid costs see
  • expeditious determination
    • compared to security for costs 8.68
  • factors in discretion
    • ability and willingness to pay costs 5.1
    • abuse of process etc 5.34-5.38
    • against security 5.47-5.68
    • agreement as to costs 5.26
    • categories - financial, liability, conduct and fairness 5.2
    • claimant in fact respondent 5.47-5.48
    • condition of indulgence 5.46
    • conduct factors 5.39-5.46
    • corporate claimant 5.9
    • corporate liquidation 5.10
    • counterclaim 5.13-5.17
    • delay 5.41-5.45
    • dissipation of assets 5.21-5.22
    • enforcement difficulties 5.24
    • fairness 5.1
    • financial factors 5.5-5.24
    • impecuniosity 5.6
    • intrinsic persuasiveness of 2.38
    • liability factors 5.25-5.38
    • means to pay 5.8
    • mixed natural and corporate claimants 5.66
    • no costs shifting 5.27-5.28
    • nominal claimant 5.11
    • non-compliance with orders 5.20
    • not closed 5.1
    • offers or admissions 5.64
    • oppression 5.55-5.61
    • outstanding costs or debts 5.19
    • poor substantive merits 5.29-5.33
    • prejudice from delay 5.41-5.45
    • public importance 5.62-5.63
    • quantum of costs 5.12
    • residence abroad 5.5
    • respondent assumed the risk 5.53-5.54
    • respondent caused claimant’s impecuniosity 5.49-5.22
    • respondent has security 5.67
    • small vs large company 5.61
    • special relationship 5.65
    • subject to source of power 5.3
    • third party funding 5.23
    • unclean hands 5.68
    • unreasonable conduct 5.39-5.40
    • weight of factors 2.38
  • fairness
    • touchstone of security 2.11
    • creditors, to 8.73
  • finality
  • form of security
    • after the event insurance 6.40
    • all circumstances relevant 6.36
    • least disadvantageous form 6.33
    • onus on claimant to show adequacy 6.34
    • preserving from creditors 6.31
    • preserving from security registration legislation 6.32
    • undertaking from third party funder 6.30
    • usual forms 6.30
  • Freeman, R Edward
    • stakeholder model 7.17
  • Friedman, Milton
    • shareholder model 7.17
  • fundamental change in circumstances
    • assumption of risk basis 4.10
    • common deminator in ICC arbitrations 4.10
    • sole basis of cautio 2.1
  • Guerrilla tactics
  • Hague Conventions 1905, 1954 4.18
  • ICC approach to security
  • improper conduct Guerilla tactics
  • institutions
  • International investment arbitration
    • access to justice 10.34
    • assumption of the risk 10.35
    • costs of applications for security 10.42
    • costs shifting 10.34
    • court rules, relevance of 10.15
    • exceptional circumstances, history of 10.2
    • exceptional circumstances, relevance of 10.32
    • factors 10.38
    • form of security 10.41
    • ICSID approach 10.9, 10.25
    • institutional rules 10.13
    • interim measures, increase of 10.34
    • international commercial arbitration, cf 10.37
    • juridical basis 10.6
    • natural person claimants 10.33
    • need for security 10.4
    • orders, form of 10.40
    • power to order security 10.7-10.15
    • public international law elements 10.34
    • quantum of security 10.40
    • stifling principle 10.34
    • UNCITRAL approach 10.12, 10.18
  • interim measures
    • liability for costs and damages 9.31
  • International commercial courts
    • effect on arbitration 7.4
  • Judicialisation of arbitration 8.42, 9.37-9.39
  • Juridical basis of security for costs
  • LCIA tribunals
    • approach to security 4.40-4.53
    • exceptional circumstances not required 4.45
    • non-publication of decisions 4.40, 4.53
    • number of applications and orders 1.9, 4.40-4.45
  • legal profession
    • emergence of paid 2.2
  • legislation Annexure 1A
  • legitimacy of international commercial arbitration
  • merits of claim
    • neutral in discretion unless extreme 5.30
    • not a mini trial 5.31
    • preliminary evaluation of only 5.31

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    New York Convention
    • bedrock of arbitration 8.3
    • enforcement under 4.19
    • ineffective if no assets 9.2
    • party autonomy recognised 8.2
  • opportunity to present case
    • security for costs to enhance 9.32-9.33
  • Orders
  • party autonomy
  • party consent
    • arguments based in 7.1 et seq
    • evolution of 7.4
    • marginalisation of 7.4
    • role of 7.4
  • poverty of claimant
    • insufficent alone as factor 2.8
  • power to order security
    • case management powers 3.9
    • institutional rules 3.8
    • lex arbitri 3.3
    • party agreement 3.2
    • court’s inherent power 2.8
  • procedural fairness
  • purpose of security for costs
    • funds available to pay costs 5.25
    • prevent abuse of process 2.12, 2.13, 2.3
  • quantum of security
    • broad brush estimate 6.19
    • discounting - settlement and vicissitudes 6.25
    • for costs of enforcement 6.39
    • including instiution and tribunal fees 6.32
    • just and reasonable 6.20
    • liability factors relevant 6.24
    • no discounting where staged 6.25
    • pre-commencement costs included 6.26-6.27
    • protection vs oppression 6.20
  • residence abroad
    • forbidden as basis of cautio 2.1
    • formerly determinative 2.6, 2.8, 8.54
    • insufficient alone in arbitration 2.11
  • Rules Annexure 1B
  • seats
  • security for costs
    • controversy over 1.6
    • definition 1.1
    • significance 1.3
  • settlement facilitation
    • parties’ desire for assistance 9.40
  • standard of proof for security
    • balance of probabilities 3.12
    • low threshold 3.15
    • no established standard 3.11
    • past vs future events, estanlishment of 3.15
    • possible standards 3.11
    • pragmatic approach 3.16
    • prima facie plausibility 3.12
    • ‘reasonable possibility’ of success 3.14
    • ‘reasonable probability’ of harm 3.12
    • ‘satisfy’ the tribunal 3.14
    • ‘some likelihood’ of no risk 3.12
    • UNCITRAL Model Law 3.13
  • stay of arbitration
  • stifling principle
    • all factors weighed 5.56
    • meaning and importance 2.47
    • no funding available 5.58
    • on balance of probabilities 5.58
    • operation of 7.24
    • staged security to avoid 5.59
  • summary disposition 9.10-9.14
    • Arbitration Bill 2023 (UK) 9.13
    • high threshold 9.13
    • ‘no real prospect of succeeding’ 9.13
    • security for costs as less drastic form of 9.14
    • support growing for 9.13
  • Swiss approach
    • exceptional circumstances doubted 4.16-4.19
    • less exceptional circumstances 4.15-4.20
  • tests for security
    • exceptional, special and total circumstances 1.11
  • Treaty of Rome
    • article 6 2.1
  • tribunals
    • duty to ensure awards enforceable 9.3
    • power to order security for costs 3.1-3.9
    • power to stay arbitration 8.59

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    UK courts 1934-1997
    • exceptional circumstances not required 4.26-4.36
    • security in arbitration 4.21-4.36
  • UNCITRAL Model Law
    • 2006 amendment 1.2
    • articles 17, 17A 3.3-3.7
    • interim measures 3.3-3.7
    • party autonomy recognised 8.4
  • unmeritorious claims
    • security for costs to control 9.11-9.14
  • utility of security
    • attractiveness and competitiveness 9.45-9.46
    • control mechanism 9.10
    • control mechanism - cost and delay 9.18-9.20
    • control mechanism - improper conduct 9.15-9.16
    • control mechanism - unmeritorius claims 9.11-9.14
    • correct injustice 9.35-9.36
    • counterbalance judicialisation 9.37-9.39
    • enforcement 9.2-9.9
    • enhance access to justice 9.34
    • enhance equal treatment 9.24-9.31
    • enhance opportunity to present case 9.32-9.33
    • enhance procedural fairness 9.21-9.33
    • facilitate settlement 9.40
    • for instution of arbitration 9.41-9.47
    • for parties 9.2-9.40
    • harmonisation arbitration and litigation 9.47
    • jurisprudence and guidance 9.42-9.43
    • reduce transaction costs 9.47
    • uniformity 9.44

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