Member of the Czech delegation to the UNCITRAL

October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 JUDr. Martin SvatosPosted in ADR, Events, Mediation, UNCITRALTagged Enforcement of mediated settlement agreements, UNCITRAL

The meeting of the UNCITRAL Working Group II took place from September 12 to 23, 2016 in Vienna (Austria). Its only item on the schedule was the draft convention on enforcement of mediated settlement agreements.

Dr. Martin Svatos, Ph.D. has been appointed as a member of the Delegation of the Czech Republic to the WGII. He actively participated in the discussions and influenced its deliberations.

The working group has discussed a lot of importnat points, such as opt-in/opt-out mechanism, proof of the mediators’ participation or the requirements the mediated settlement agreements need to meet in order to be covered by the scope of the perspective document. However, the main issue, i.e. whether the instrument will take form of a convention or of a model law, has not yet been decided

You can see the documents related to the WGII activity here.

The next session of the UNCITRAL WG II will take place in February 2017 in New York.

Martin is one of the leading Czech mediators and arbitrators. He has acted in more than 200 both international and domestic cases in mediation (listed by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic and by the Energy Community). His experiences in alternative dispute resolution were appreciated when he became the President of the Working group of the ICC Czech Republic for mediation. Martin has acted in several arbitrations both as chairman, member of the tribunal and of counsel (listed as arbitrator by the VIAC, Arbitration Court of the Czech Football Association, Czech Arbitration Court and Czech Commodity Exchange Arbitration Court). Martin lectures at the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and at the Seminar of European and Comparative Law in Urbino (Italy). He has been visiting professor at the University of the French West Indies in Guadeloupe. He also gave a course at the Faculté Libre de Droit Institut Catholique de Toulouse, at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (both PRC), Georgetown University (USA) and many others. In 2016, he acted as a member of the Czech delegation to the UNCITRAL WG II. He publishes and gives speeches at international conferences on regular basis. He is one of the co-editors of the EU Mediation Handbook (Kluwer International, 2017). As a speaker, he attended many international conferences all around the globe (the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres, the IBA Annual Conference, the German Arbitration Institute Annual Conference, the Conference of the Mediators’ Institute of Ireland (Dublin) and YIAG conferences (Istanbul, Warsaw)...