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What does Use mean? In legal practice, Use describes any act of dealing with information, materials, works, data or technology. It is usually a contractual umbrella term capturing a broad range of actions, commonly including to distribute, disclose, store, use, analyse, copy, reproduce, extract, modify or adapt, whether in whole or in part. Use is not generally fixed by statute; its scope turns on the wording of the relevant agreement and context. That said, it intersects with specific legal regimes. In intellectual property, “use” of a trade mark in the course of trade (UK Trade Marks Act 1994; Irish Trade Marks Act 1996) and the...

The in-house counsel’s guide to international arbitration: dispute resolution choices, clause drafting, case management, costs, tribunal selection, procedure, settlement, award and enforcement

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This Practice Note explores the wide-ranging functions in-house legal teams may assume in international arbitration and connected issues. It is intended as direct guidance for in-house counsel (though, stylistically, we refer to such lawyers in neutral terms). It should equally assist practitioners collaborating with in-house teams, or seeking clearer insight into their place within the arbitral workflow. Much of the pragmatic advice could also apply where the chosen dispute resolution route is, for instance, litigation or mediation. Although the emphasis is on the contribution of in-house counsel to international commercial arbitration, the discussion and pointers may likewise inform in-house lawyers involved in international investment arbitration (investor–state dispute resolution), particularly viewed from the perspective of investors.

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Dr Cameron Ford , OAM SC

William Forster Chambers

Dr Cameron Ford OAM SC is an independent arbitrator, counsel and mediator practising from Singapore. He holds a PhD on the topic Towards a Transnational Standard for Security for Costs in International Commercial Arbitration, and is a Specialist Mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Centre. He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to law.Cameron is on the arbitration panels of SIAC, HKIAC, KCAB, CIETAC and BAC and has conducted numerous commercial and investor-state arbitrations as counsel and as arbitrator under various institutional rules including SIAC, ICC, ICSID and UNCITRAL.Cameron was most recently a partner in the international dispute resolution group of Squire Patton Boggs, based in Singapore. He has spent about a decade as in-house counsel with National Australia Bank, Downer Group and Rio Tinto, managing large commercial and investor-state disputes. From that experience he gained a deeper...

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