ARBITRATION

Victor Leginsky is an Arbitrator with the Dubai International Arbitration Centre, DIAC and the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, KLRCA.  He is confirmed as an arbitrator by the ICC International Court of Arbitration and is a Fellow with the prestigious Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

To view Victor's CV, please go to this site HERE and click on Victor Leginsky Arb+Law July 2011locked.

If Victor is appointed to be your arbitrator, or if you decide to choose Victor to be your Arbitrator, you will benefit from his lengthy experience.  Victor has been a Chair or a member of over three dozen arbitration panels, and has appeared as counsel in more than a dozen more.

Victor Leginsky is co-teaching "Practical Techniques for Handling International Commercial Arbitration Cases" with Prof. Dr. Klaus Peter Berger in Dubai, 19 - 21 September 2011.  Please click here for details.

Victor served as Chair of the Manufactured Home Park Dispute Resolution Committee by appointment of the Attorney General of British Columbia between 1998 and 2002. This project was established to resolve disputes in manufactured home parks using mediation  and arbitration skills.

Why Arbitrate?

• Final & binding effect of arbitration award
• Neutrality
• Speed
• Confidentiality
• Economy
• Specialized competence of arbitrators
• Autonomy of parties to control process

How Does My Company Arbitrate at the Dubai International Arbitration Centre?

Please put a clause like this in the contracts and agreements that your company enters in to:

“Any dispute arising out of the formation, performance, interpretation, nullification, termination or invalidation of this contract or arising therefrom or related thereto in any manner whatsoever, shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the provisions set forth under the Arbitration Rules of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (“the Rules”), by one or more arbitrators appointed in compliance with the Rules.”

Parties are also advised to include the following in their contractual and submission agreements:

1. The number of arbitrators (1 OR a panel of 3) OR an authorisation for the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) to determine the number of arbitrators and their identities;

2. Determine the place of arbitration (e.g. “Dubai”) and venue to hold arbitration proceedings (e.g. “premises of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre”);

3. Determine the language of arbitration (e.g. “English”)

Victor Leginsky has been involved in arbitrations for over 20 years.

See more about DIAC at http://www.diac.ae/idias/services/dubai/