Author: Matthias J. Terlau
Published: December 1996
| Jurisdiction: Germany International |
Topics: Practice and Procedure Basic Standards of Due Process |
Description: It has been said that the parties’ right to be heard, i.e., due process, hovers like the “Sword of Damocles” over arbitration proceedings. Notwithstanding the fact that only a minimal number of arbitral awards will later be reviewed in courts, the parties’ constitutional and statutory rights to due process must be kept in mind at all stages of the arbitral process.