Canadian Arbitration Report 2024

This inaugural Canadian Arbitration Report presents data obtained in the Canadian Arbitration Survey from arbitration practitioners – arbitrators, counsel, and experts – based in Canada, for the three-year period from January 2020 – December 2022. We hope that this profile of commercial arbitration in Canada will be useful to law firms and their arbitration practice groups, arbitrators, and expert firms, as well as to corporate counsel, academics, service providers to arbitration practitioners, and others.

More specifically, we hope that this Report will help:

Arbitration practitioners (counsel, arbitrators, tribunal assistants) in advancing their practices and in pursing and obtaining work, and in providing better service to their clients / disputing parties,
Corporate counsel in planning and contracting for their clients’ dispute resolution needs, and in managing their disputes more effectively,
Experts in supporting arbitration practitioners and arbitrations, pursuing and obtaining work, and in advancing their practices and businesses,
Other service providers including arbitral institutions and hearing centres,
Academics in studying and teaching in the field, and in gaining support and funding for their work and for arbitration mooting, and,
Arbitration organizations in Canada in promoting the use of arbitration in Canada. There are many conclusions that can be drawn from the data. This Report presents some of the significant conclusions that the Chairs have observed. We invite you to look for insights of your own in the charts and graphs, and we hope that you will find them useful for your work in arbitration.

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