COVID19: Consider Requests For Adjournment, Conduct Urgent Hearings Via Video Conferencing: IAF Appeals To All Arbitral Tribunals [Read Statement]

The Indian Arbitration Forum has appealed to the Arbitral Tribunals to avoid arbitral proceedings and allow requests for adjournments in the next 8 weeks as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of Novel COVID-19. Any urgent hearing, the IAF has suggested, may be conducted via video-conferencing, to avoid health risk to all the stakeholders. "As you are aware, experts...