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Blending legal principles with practical experience, empirical studies and humour, the debate titled “Procedural Efficiency in Arbitration: Myth, Mantra or Menace?” underscored the constant balancing exercise between due process, document production, witnesses, and state treatment versus efficiency, economy, and the search for justice.
The distinction drawn at LIDW26 between due process challenges and public policy review finds a close parallel in Indian arbitration jurisprudence, where courts examine procedural fairness and public policy concerns through separate legal lenses.
At International Arbitration Day during LIDW26, leading practitioners, academics and judges examined due process challenges in arbitration, discussing public policy review, the Semenya litigation, corruption-based challenges, AI-assisted decision-making, expert evidence and judicial scrutiny of arbitral awards.
At LIDW 2026, Lord Neuberger praised international arbitration as one of modern dispute resolution’s great success stories, while warning that cost, delay, transparency and corruption must now be confronted if arbitration is to retain its legitimacy.