Best Practices in Arbitration and Conflicts Resolution

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the right course of action to resolve a legal dispute
• Reduce the possibility of disputes leading to legal action
• Apply national and international legal requirements for dispute resolution
• Employ arbitration knowledge to negotiate terms
• Use case law to achieve a favorable outcome for their organization

CONTENT:

• Fundamentals of dispute resolution
  • Overview of the Conflicts resolution process
  • Methods of Conflicts resolution including: Introduction to High Court litigation processes

• Conflicts resolution in the organization
  • The Alternative Conflicts Resolution (ADR) system
  • Importance of Alternative Conflicts Resolution

• Law systems
  • Civil law system
  • Codification
  • Subgroups

• Common law system
  • Court decisions
  • Statutes
  • Introduction to international arbitration
  • Institutional versus ‘ad hoc’ arbitration

• • Introduction to mediation: The process and its principles
• Arbitration in the organization
  • The arbitration award and its enforcement
  • Advantages and disadvantages of:

FOR WHOM:

This course would highly benefit in-house council and legal advisors new to the region who require the nitty-gritty of dispute resolution

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.