LECTURE: Expert Witness: Evidence in International Arbitration

IMarEST TV recording by the Midlands Branch on the 26th April 2023. This lecture was presented by Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University. 

Unlike litigation in a national court, arbitration has the flexibility to adopt or modify it's procedure in accordance with the circumstances of the matter. In this lecture, the speaker explains the current procedure for giving evidence in court proceedings.

Whilst fully complying with the rules of national justice and the cardinal principles of arbitration, the speaker discusses the adoption of robust and pragmatic approaches in giving expert evidence in international arbitration, improving the efficiency of the dispute resolution process. Ideas of how to extend these efficiencies in the ever-growing popularity of arbitration in the digital era are also explored.

About the Speaker

Dr Alan Ma is qualified in IT, Engineering, and Law, and is a lecturer of Law at Birmingham City University, as well as a committee member for the IMarEST's Midlands Branch. He is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales as well as Scotland (non-practising on the Roll of the Law Society of Scotland), a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Chartered Engineer.

His working experience in engineering, computing technology and legal practices spans more than 30 years. Before his academic appointment at Birmingham City University in 2019, Alan was Resident Partner of an English law firm's branch office in Hong Kong as a registered foreign law firm. He has practised English law in three jurisdictions.

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