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Oman Hosts Forum on E-arbitration, Signing Contracts and Settling Disputes via the Internet

Sunday, 01 August 2010 17:03

Oman (Salalah) - Deliberations of the 15th Salalah Forum on "E-arbitration, Signing Contracts and Settling Disputes via the Internet" was opened at Salalah Hilton Hotel today under the auspices of Suhail bin Salim Ja'aboub, Member of Majlis A'Shura in the presence of a number of officials from the governmental and private sectors in the Governorate of Dhofar. The forum is organized by the AGCC Commercial Arbitration Centre in conjunction with Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) branch in the Governorate of Dhofar and lasts for four days.

Amer bin Ahmed al A'mri, OCCI Board's member and Head of OCCI Salalah branch gave a speech highlighting the importance of the summer programmes of the forum, which is being held for the 15th consecutive time and attracting the top specialists in the field of the commercial arbitration, such as, experts, lawyers, legal accountants, arbitrators, judges of commercial disputes, academics and researchers in the legal departments in the governmental and private sectors.

He added that the forum comes in consistence with the policies of member states and federations of commerce and industry chambers after the great role of the e-commerce in the modern trade, pointing out that the forum emphasizes the concept of e-commerce and its fields, applications, markets, laws and regulations that govern it when there are disputes between the parties.

Ahmed Najm Abdullah al Najm, Secretary General of the AGCC Commercial Arbitration Centre gave a speech welcoming participants. He also pointed out that the forum this year touches on e-arbitration or remote arbitration, which has been commonly dealt with as a successful mean that saves time, effort and money in the management of arbitrary case. He also added that the modern technology and advanced communication means avail an appropriate atmosphere for remote arbitration without the necessity for parties of arbitration to meet at one table in a locked office.

Al Najm also pointed out that the AGCC Commercial Arbitration Centre is keen to strike a balance between organizing training activities and developing arbitration issues, which are increasing as a result of confidence in procedures of arbitration and its independence, honesty and complete neutrality between parties of the dispute. He also said that the centre is established to serve the AGCC citizens either they are natural or juristic persons.

The forum's programme includes a number of theoretical lectures, practical applications in the e-arbitration field, modern means of contracting, appropriate skills to draft contracting commitments in the Internet, training on how to draft e-arbitration agreements in the light of New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, in addition to, familiarizing with e-arbitration, its advantages and disadvantages, e-arbitration procedures and how to enforce their provisions.

52 participants from specialists, advisers and legal experts from the AGCC private and official establishments are taking part in the forum's training programme.

Dr. Ahmed Sharaf A'deen from the Faculty of Law at Ain Shams University in the Arab Republic of Egypt and Fellow of the Chartered institute of Arbitrators in London and Dr. Minas Khatchadourian, Professor at Alexandria University and member at a number of regional and international institutions specialized in the arbitration field.

Organizing the forum comes as part of educational and training programmes that the AGCC Commercial Arbitration Centre is keen to implement to develop capacities and skills of arbitrators and specialists in a number of fields.
(ONA)
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