Williams and Kawharu on Arbitration is well recognised for its excellence, having won the JF Northey Prize 2012 for best legal treatise published in New Zealand in 2011 and been reviewed favourably both in New Zealand and internationally.
Since the first edition was published in 2011, it has been cited on several occasions by the New Zealand courts as an authoritative interpretation of arbitral practice in New Zealand, including by the Supreme Court in Zurich Australian Insurance Ltd t/a Zurich New Zealand v Cognition Education Ltd [2014] NZSC 188 and in Carr v Cook Gallaway Allan [2014 J NZSC 75.
This second edition of Williams and Kawharu on Arbitration builds on the structure of the first with a distinct focus on significant recent case law in New Zealand and elsewhere as well as developments concerning arbitral law and practice in the Asia-Pacific region. Additional topics in this edition include: the growth of international arbitration in the region, third-party funding, the arbitration of trust disputes, emergency arbitrators and the importance of soft law guidelines including the new IBA Guidelines on Party Representation in International Arbitration and the Young ICCA Guide on Arbitral Secretaries.
Written for practising lawyers, arbitrators, judges and students, Williams and Kawharu on Arbitration is an indispensable aid to those studying and practising in this important area of law.
Features:-
- Researched and written by a high profile author team who have extensive practical and theoretical knowledge of both domestic and international arbitration.
- Comprehensive in-depth analysis of the Arbitration Act 1996 as well as concepts and decisions relating to arbitration generally which places New Zealand arbitration in its wider international context
- Practical and topical the first edition was the winner of the Legal Research Foundations JF Northey Memorial Book Award for 2011
