In this short podcast, Partner, Craig Tevendale and Professional support lawyer, Hannah Ambrose, look at multi-tier dispute resolution clauses involving arbitration. The podcast considers the benefits of these clauses (also known as escalation clauses), the approach taken by the courts in a number of different jurisdictions and key considerations for drafting.
For further information or to suggest topics for future podcasts, please contact Craig Tevendale, Partner, Hannah Ambrose, Professional Support Lawyer, or your usual Herbert Smith Freehills contact.
You may also be interested in our previous podcasts "Arbitration in Multi-Party and Multi-Contract Scenarios - What You Need to Know", and "Unilateral Arbitration Clauses: Enforcement Issues and Drafting". You may also be interested in Herbert Smith Freehills' ADR Practical Guide on the use of mediation with arbitration.
An article published in the Turkish Commercial Law Review entitled "Multi-tier dispute resolution clauses and Arbitration" by Craig Tevendale, Hannah Ambrose and Vanessa Naish is available here.
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