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UNCITRAL Model Law definition

What does UNCITRAL Model Law mean? In practice, UNCITRAL model Law refers to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross‑Border insolvency (1997), a template used to recognise and assist foreign insolvency proceedings and to coordinate concurrent cases in different countries. It is not legislation itself; it is a non‑binding model text produced by UNCITRAL and adopted into domestic law by states. In England & Wales and Scotland it is implemented by the Cross‑Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 (CBIR 2006), and in Northern Ireland by the Cross‑Border Insolvency Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007. Key features include: access for a foreign representative to apply to the court; recognition of foreign...

UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration: Overview, Provisions, Global Adoption, and Relationship to the Arbitration Act 1996 (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)

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What is the Model Law?

As its title implies, The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (the Model Law) serves as a template for domestic arbitration legislation produced by UNCITRAL. First issued in 1985, its purpose was for states to adopt and implement it, thereby aligning national approaches to commercial arbitration and improving domestic arbitration laws. In that sense, it has achieved notable success. Iterations of the Model Law have been implemented, in full or with variations, in more than 100 jurisdictions worldwide. A list of states whose legislation is based on the Model Law is available on the UNCITRAL website. UNCITRAL also makes clear on that page that a model law is simply a suggested pattern for law-makers to consider when shaping their own legislation; since states are free to depart from the text when enacting it, the list is indicative only and reflects enactments reported to the UNCITRAL Secretariat...

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Hendrik Puschmann

Trowers & Hamlins LLP

Hendrik is a Partner in Trowers & Hamlins' Commercial Disputes team and Co-Head of the International Arbitration group. Hendrik has nearly 20 years' experience advising clients on a wide range of complex and high-value disputes, both in arbitration and in court. He also acts as arbitrator and mediator, and as expert witness on English law in foreign proceedings. Hendrik has extensive experience in representing entrepreneurs, family offices, companies and governments in cases ranging across M&A, joint ventures, franchising, construction, engineering, insurance, shipping, commodities, art and cultural property and other fields. He has acted as party representative and arbitrator in both commercial and investor-state arbitrations under various rules, such as LCIA, ICC, VIAC, SIAC, DIS, LMAA, UNCITRAL, ICSID and the ICSID Additional Facility. He also assists clients with the enforcement, appeal, annulment, and injunction of arbitral awards and has given strategic advice to several...

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