This course aims to provide students with the requisite knowledge of and practice in formulating and drafting a final, reasoned and enforceable arbitration award in an international commercial dispute.

 This course will focus on the following key elements to assist the student in drafting an enforceable arbitration award:

1.       How to draft and communicate arbitral awards;

2.       Types of awards;

3.       Deliberations and decision making;

4.       Form and context of arbitral awards;

5.       Effect of the final award

This course enhances the student’s ability to carry out independent research and acquire knowledge through self-study thus enabling students to demonstrate an ability to:

§  analyse the facts and documents in arbitration proceedings and organise decisions on the facts and the law; and

§  to write an enforceable, reasoned award which deals with matters in dispute in a clear and logical manner, using appropriate terminology, and taking into account the use of grammar, punctuation and spelling.