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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253350503321

Autore

El-Awa Mariam M

Titolo

Confidentiality in Arbitration : The Case of Egypt / / by Mariam M. El-Awa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-39122-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 222 p.)

Collana

Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, , 1534-6781 ; ; 56

Disciplina

341.522

Soggetti

Conflict of laws

Mediation

Dispute resolution (Law)

Conflict management

Public law

Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law

Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration

Public Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Essential Background -- Privacy and Confidentiality in Egyptian Arbitration – Law and Practice -- Privacy and Confidentiality in the Judicial System -- Privacy and Confidentiality in the Egyptian Legal System -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses the issue of privacy and confidentiality in the broader context of the Egyptian legal system. The volume opens with an overview of the major approaches to confidentiality adopted in various jurisdictions. It goes on to examine the duties of confidentiality and privacy in arbitration law and practice on the basis of interviews with 30 law professors and practitioners who often act as arbitrators or counsel for parties in arbitral disputes together with the relevant Egyptian arbitration law provisions. The book takes into account the relevant provisions in the arbitration laws of Syria, Saudia Arabia and Yemen. It moves on to explore the relation between arbitration and the



judicial system, and the extent to which the former should borrow its rules from the latter with regard to publicity and the rule of public trial. Finally, this book looks at the right to privacy as (a) a constitutional right, as a potential basis for a legal duty of confidentiality in arbitration, and the duties stemming from this constitutional right in the various laws of Egypt, as well as (b) the constraints imposed on the right to privacy, in particular those stemming from the constitutional principles of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The main conclusion is that confidentiality does indeed exist in arbitration. However, its legal basis is not the law on arbitration or the arbitration agreement. It is in fact a corollary of the fundamental right to privacy granted in the Egyptian legal system to both natural and legal persons.