Abuse of Document Production in International Arbitration: Remedies When the Adverse Inference Falls Short
The article discusses what the authors call “the power and primacy of contemporaneous documents” and looks at cases where the protocols for submission of document requests in arbitration are abused by a party to the arbitration, focusing on tribunals’ need for alternatives to having an adverse inference in respect of abuse as the “adequate sole or exclusive remedy.”
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