New Trends in the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration

Nishimura & Asahi and ICDR Y&I will hold a co-sponsored seminar entitled "New Trends in the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration - Beyond the Civil Law / Common Law Devide".

If you wish to attend this event, please complete the following form and send it to the specified address by e-mail.

Program

17:00 Opening Remarks
Hiroyuki Tezuka (Nishimura & Asahi)

17:10 Panel discussion
Lars Markert, Moderator (Nishimura & Asahi)
First session
- The "Sachs Protocol on Expert Witnesses"
Yutaro Kawabata (Nishimura & Asahi)

- Advantages and disadvantages of "hot tubbing" of fact and expert witnesses
Nicholas Lingard (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)

17:55 Coffee Break

18:15 Second session
- Availability of provisions of the United States Federal Code to Japanese parties,
such as 28 U.S.C. 1782, to obtain evidence in aid of international arbitral proceedings
James Boykin (Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP)

- Disclosure of electronic documents in international arbitration and the ICDR Guidelines
for Arbitrators Concerning Exchanges of Information on this issue
Aoi Inoue (Anderson Mori & Tomotsune)

19:00 Reception

* Please note that the entire program will be in English.
* Please also note that once the number of applicants reaches the limit of available places, we will no longer accept applications.

Program fee: Free