Congress Series

The relationship of national courts and arbitration has been improved by the 1958 New York Convention, arbitration legislation based on the highly successful UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, and an ever-increasing body of arbitration specialists in the legal community. Yet many issues still remain in this 'never-ending story'. They are explored in ICCA Congress Series no. 10, which contains the proceedings of the ICCA Conference 2000, held in New Delhi in March 2000. This Conference, hosted by the Indian Council of Arbitration, explored four topics covering the full range of the arbitral process:

• The Contract: Ensuring its Validity and Effectiveness
• The Arbitral Proceedings: The Arbitrator's Responsibilities for the Proper Conduct of Proceedings and the Role of the Courts in Providing Support and Supervision
• Interim Relief: The Role of Arbitrators and the Courts
• Enforcement and Setting Aside of Awards.

These issues are addressed both from a global point of view and with a particular focus on the recent Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996, the text of which is reproduced in the Annex.

The relationship of national courts and arbitration has been improved by the 1958 New York Convention, arbitration legislation based on the highly successful UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, and an ever-increasing body of