The in­ef­fi­ciency of ef­fi­ciency tools: Safe­guard­ing nat­ur­al justice in ar­bit­ral award writ­ing

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Fab­ri­cio Fortese’s art­icle in Ar­bit­ra­tion In­ter­na­tion­al ad­dresses the point at which ar­bit­ral tribunals’ use of copied pas­sages from the parties’ sub­mis­sions, evid­ence and pro­ced­ur­al orders in draft­ing awards can give rise to con­cerns about nat­ur­al justice, au­thor­ship and the ap­pear­ance of bias. It con­siders how in­dis­crim­in­ate ‘copy and paste’ may com­prom­ise the in­teg­rity of the ar­bit­ral pro­cess and dis­cusses the stand­ards ap­plic­able to these un­com­mon natural-justice ob­jec­tions.