Status: Completed
Project overview
This project recommended a new legislative framework for both domestic and international arbitration in New Zealand, a framework largely based on the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration produced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
Status: Completed
Preliminary Paper
Arbitration: A discussion paper (NZLC PP7, 1988)
The Commission's Preliminary Paper, Arbitration: A discussion paper (NZLC PP7, 1988).
Status: Completed
Report
Arbitration (NZLC R20, 1991)
The Commission's Report, Arbitration (NZLC R20, 1991).
Status: Completed
Government response
Recommendations were implemented by the Arbitration Act 1996.
There was no requirement for the Government to present a formal response to Commission reports before April 2009.
See Official Government response process | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC).