Originally from Emergency Relief in International Arbitration: Concept, Legal Framework, Standards, and Enforcement

PREVIEW

1. Introduction  

This chapter will focus on the steps that a respondent to an emergency relief application could take upon receiving the notification of the application. Before proceeding to the substantive discussion, it is prudent to define what being a “respondent” to the emergency relief application means and to set the scope of this chapter because of the number of scenarios that could evolve. Depending on the timing of the notification of the application and the strategy chosen by the respondent to address the application, the scenarios could be numerous and the topic become unmanageable. 

The respondent to an emergency relief application could be defined as a person named as a “respondent” in the header of an emergency relief application which has been submitted to the arbitral institution in accordance with the relevant arbitration rules. Whether the person is a proper respondent, i.e., whether the arbitral tribunal and/or the emergency arbitrator has jurisdiction in respect of that person, is a different question yet to be decided.