Legislation based on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, as adopted in 1985 has been effected in a number of jurisdictions, including, in part, in Ontario (see International Commercial Arbitration Act R.S.O. 1990, Ch. I.9).

The UNCITRAL Secretariat has recently released a Status of Conventions and Enactments of UNCITRAL update indicating that the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration with amendments as adopted in 2006 has been enacted (at least in part) in 2010 legislation in the jurisdictions of Australia, Ireland and the State of Florida, in the United States of America.

http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/arbitration/1985Model_arbitration_status.html

David Alderson, LL.B, LL.M (Lond.)

Olanyi Parsons, LL.B.

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