Access to Arbitral Justice

We published a contribution to the yearbook of the Dutch Corporate Litigation Association (by invitation). This concerns a new full-fledged small-claims procedure for the Netherlands Arbiration Institute (“NAI”). The general proposition is that such procedure needs to be offered by a general arbitration institute such as the NAI, also as part of the effort to alleviate pressure on state courts and to offer access to justice to parties who have chosen to arbitrate their disputes.