Originally from Inside the Black Box: How Arbitral Tribunals Operate and Reach Their Decisions - ASA Special Series No. 42

MICHAEL E. SCHNEIDER:

Addressing the participants in the audience still standing, engaged in discussions: Can the dissenting arbitrators please leave the room so that the deliberations are in consensus and no horse trading! Those who do not want to dissent, please sit down.

Welcome to this afternoon’s session. Before we start the session there are two points. First, I had from one of our colleagues here an excellent idea. He sat with Daniel Wehrli recently in an arbitration and he suggested to add in the memorial note which we will be publishing in the forthcoming Bulletin a short note commemorating on his experience with Daniel. I am addressing all the many others in the room who sat with him in arbitrations or worked with him: if you would be prepared to add such a note on your memories with Daniel, please send it to me in the next ten days and it would be a very nice tribute to his memory.