I. INTRODUCTION: ARBITRATION IN JAMAICA–HISTORY AND INFRASTRUCTURE

A. History and Current Legislation on Arbitration

1. Historical evolution of law relating to arbitration 

2. Current law

a) Overview

b) Distinction between national and international arbitration

3. Law reform projects

4. Confidentiality and publication of awards

B. Arbitration Infrastructure and Practice in Jamaica 

1. Major arbitration institutions

2. Development of arbitration compared with litigation

II. CURRENT LAW AND PRACTICE 

A. Arbitration Agreement

1. Types and validity of agreement

a) Clauses and submission agreements

b) Minimum essential content

c) Form requirements

d) Incorporation by reference

e) Interpretation

2. Enforcing arbitration agreements

3. Effects on third parties

4. Termination and breach

B. Jurisdiction 

C. Arbitrability 

1. Subjective Arbitrability

a) Natural persons

b) Legal persons

c) State and state entities

2. Objective Arbitrability 

D. Arbitral Tribunal 

1. Status and qualifications of arbitrators 

a) Number of arbitrators

b) Legal status

c) Qualifications and accreditation requirements

2. Appointment of arbitrators 

a) Methods of appointment

b) Appointing authorities

c) Effect of the refusal of one party to co-operate

in the constitution of the arbitral tribunal

d) Resignation and its consequences

3. Challenge and removal

a) Grounds, procedure and deadlines for challenging an arbitrator

b) Replacement of arbitrators

4. Arbitrator liability and immunity

a) Duties and liabilities of arbitrators regarding the conduct of the proceedings

b) Possibility to restrict or exclude the arbitrators’ liability

E. Conducting the Arbitration

1. Law governing procedure 

a) Notion and role of seat of arbitration

b) Methods for selection of seat absent party choice

c) Mandatory rules of procedure

2. Conduct of arbitration

a) Party autonomy and arbitrators’ power to determine procedure

b) Tribunal’s power to issue procedural orders

c) Oral hearing or proceeding on basis of written documents

d) Distinction of matters of substance and matters of procedure

e) Submissions and notifications

f) Legal representation

3. Taking of evidence

a) Admissibility

b) Burden of proof

c) Standards of proof

d) Documentary evidence and privilege

e) Witnesses

f) Experts

4. Interim measures of protection

a) Types of measures

b) Limits of the tribunal’s powers to order

interim measures

c) Security for costs

5. Interaction between national courts and arbitration tribunals 

a) Court assistance before the arbitration

b) Court assistance during the arbitration

c) Court assistance after the arbitration

6. Law and rules and law applicable to the merits

a) Party autonomy

b) Determination by arbitrators

c) Non-national substantive rules, general principles of law and transnational rules

d) Applicable substantive law absence a choice of law by the parties

7. Costs

a) Arbitration costs

b) Legal costs

c) Security for costs

d) Costs of the administration by an arbitration institution

e) Arbitrators’ fees: law and practice, judicial control

f) Time and form of the decision on costs

8. Effect of the insolvency of a party

F. Arbitral Award 

1. Types of award 

a) Partial awards

b) Final awards

c) Interim awards

d) Consent awards

e) Default awards

2. Form requirements

a) Essential content

b) Reasons

c) Time limits for making award

d) Necessity to specify place and time where

and when the award was made

e) Other requirements

3. Decision making 

a) Deliberations

b) Dissenting and concurring opinions

c) Signature

4. Settlement 

a) Settlement recorded in an award

b) Settlement without an award

5. Correction, supplementation, and amendment 

a) Correcting the award

b) Interpretation of award

G. Challenge and Other Actions against the Award

1. Setting aside of the award

a) Grounds

b) Time limits and procedure

c) Effects of successful challenge

d) Appeal against the court´s decision to set aside or not set aside the award

e) Possibility of the parties to exclude, limit or

expand actions for setting aside

2. Appeal on the merits

a) Is it allowed?

b) Excluding the right to appeal by agreement

III. RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF AWARD

A. Domestic awards 

a) Formal requirement for enforcement of awards

b) Enforcement procedure

c) Appeal against the decision granting exequatur

d) Appeal (and procedure) if exequatur has been refused

B. Foreign awards 

a) Domestic rules

b) Requirements to be fulfilled by the applicant

c) Remedies against decisions granting or declining enforcement

d) New York Convention

e) Other international conventions

f) Existence of a standard procedure for the enforcement of foreign awards

g) Extent of examination and review of the award by the court

IV. APPENDICES AND RELEVANT INSTRUMENTS

A. National legislation 

B. Arbitration institutions

C. Cases

D. Bibliography