The Calendar of Events for Australian Arbitration Week 2023 is now available! In its 11th year and with 40 events currently scheduled, AAW is ramping it up with sessions from global thought leaders, practical tips and tricks for practitioners and arbitrators of all levels, and kick on events to showcase Perth as a leading city [...]

On the evening of Monday, 1 May 2023, ACICA hosted an event in celebration of its Corporate Members and the immense support that those organizations have provided to the institution over many years. The event was held at Dexus Place, a hearing venue with which ACICA has a referral relationship in place. The evening’s [...]

ACICA45 is delighted to announce the appointment of its first ever Co-Chairs: Imogen Kenny and Liam McInerney! They have begun their terms as Co-Chairs of the ACICA45 Steering Committee and have already been busy organising another year full of events and educational opportunities for emerging practitioners interested in arbitration. ACICA and the ACICA45 Steering Committee [...]

As reported in ACICA's Reflections on the Last Decade of Activity at the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Report launched during Australian Arbitration Week last year, over the course of the last decade (2011-2021), 86% of total appointments in cases administered by ACICA were of men arbitrators and less than 14% of appointments were [...]

Australian Arbitration Week 2023 will be held from 9 October 2023 to 13 October 2023, with the ACICA/CIArb Australia International Arbitration Conference on 9 October 2023. Get the dates in your diaries now! More information may be found on the Australian Arbitration Week website.

The AMTAC Address 2022, given by Matthew Harvey KC, is now available to view online here: https://amtac.org.au/publications-presentations-papers/ Mr Harvey presented his lecture on 12 December 2022 in the Federal Court of Australia, Melbourne, on the topic of Anomaly or Bad Policy: Foreign Arbitration Clauses and the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 (Cth).

This morning, at the ACICA/CIArb Australia International Arbitration Conference 2022 in Melbourne, ACICA launched its Reflections on Ten Years of Activity Report. It was considered timely to reflect on the decade between 2011 and 2021, to highlight the achievements that have been accomplished, and developments made, over this period in Australia and by ACICA. This report [...]

Contribute to the development of arbitration in Australia by responding to the second ACICA/FTI Survey! The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) with the support of FTI Consulting, has launched a second survey on international arbitration. This time we are focussed on evidence! The successful launch of the Australian Arbitration Report in 2021 [...]

  Future Frontiers 7 November 2022, Melbourne The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) are delighted to invite you to this year’s International Arbitration Conference.  The Conference is the lead event for Australian Arbitration Week and will be held in the heart of Melbourne at the new W Hotel on 7 November 2022. [...]

On 6 September 2022, ACICA45 representative Ella Wisniewski (Perth) chaired a diverse panel of arbitration practitioners. The panel consisted of Samantha Lord Hill (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer), Rupert Coldwell (Vinson & Elkins), Bronte Hannah (CMS), Aaron McDonald (Herbert Smith Freehills), and Jake Lowther (Magnusson). These Australian practitioners work all over the world, some have even found [...]