The ICE Arbitration Procedure 2006 Available to Purchase

The ICE Arbitration Procedure 2006 is the fourth such procedure to be published by the ICE, the first being in 1973. The aim of all the ICE procedures has been to make the arbitration process accessible to all, whether the dispute is large or small, and to provide great flexibility to both the parties and the arbitrator as to how the dispute is to be dealt with. The need for a new procedure was brought about by the huge reduction in arbitration caused by the introduction of statutory adjudication into the UK construction industry in 1998. The aim of the 2006 Procedure is to combine the speed of adjudication with the final and binding nature of arbitration for all but the largest disputes and this is achieved by the introduction of different procedures depending upon the amount in dispute. The author is a practising arbitrator and adjudicator and was chairman of the ICE Arbitration Advisory Panel during the period that the 2006 procedure was drafted.