On April 25, 2008, the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) presented the new Supplementary Rules for Expedited Proceedings. The new Rules allow parties and arbitrators to conduct an arbitration within six months (sole arbitrator) or nine months (three–member tribunal). To achieve this goal, the time limits provided for in the DIS Arbitration Rules 1998 for the nomination of arbitrators are shortened, four–week deadlines for the submission of briefs are fixed in the Supplementary Rules and the common interest of the parties in the expedition of the arbitration becomes a guiding maxim for the exercise of the tribunal’s procedural discretion.Also, the arbitral tribunal is expected to establish at the outset of the proceedings a procedural timetable and to identify to the parties at an early stage of the proceedings the issues that it regards as relevant and material to the outcome of the case.
Journal of International Arbitration