SETLEN ARBITRATION DISPUTES RESOLUTION FORUM

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Email: empanelment@setlen.co.in | Website: www.setlen.co.in

APPLICATION FORM FOR EMPANELMENT AS AN ARBITRATOR

(Please attach supporting documents for the purposes of office records)

Categories of Panel of Arbitrators:

Judges
Advocates
Engineers
Chartered Accountants/Financial Experts
Executives

Shipping
Businessmen
Foreign Nationals
Other Area

Fields of Specialization:

Please put numbers (i.e. 1, 2, 3…) based on your priority of experience or knowledge:

Undertakings:

a) I agree to abide by the Rules of Setlen including Guidelines.

b) I shall take up and complete the arbitration assigned to me with utmost diligence and expedition.

c) All arbitrators being of equal status, I shall not object to my appointment as arbitrator in a particular case on the basis of my previous status or that of any appointed arbitrator.

d) I note that my name will be deleted from the Panel as soon as I attain 80 years of age.

e) I have not been convicted or charged of any offence or any criminal investigation or vigilance enquiry pending against me.

f) I declare that I have not been removed as arbitrator in circumstances where moral probity or incompetence were an issue.

g) I declare that above particulars furnished are true & correct.

Date:

Signature of the Applicant:

Please sign below to confirm that all information provided is true and correct:

Basic Requirements:

• Must be a Member of Setlen

• Must hold a University Degree in the field

• Must not be more than Eighty years

Broad Categories of Qualifications and Experience:

1. Judges:
   Honorably Retired as Judge of the Supreme Court or any of the High Courts and have made judicial pronouncements in some arbitration cases.

2. Advocates:
   Practicing in the Supreme Court or at the level of the High Court for at least fifteen years with experience in arbitration matters and knowledge of corporate laws particularly Arbitration and Contract Law and Arbitration Procedures.

3. Engineers, Chartered Engineers etc.:

   • (a) Honorably Retired not below the rank of Chief Engineer in the CPWD or in any other Department of the Central or State Governments.

   • (b) Chartered Engineers having specialization of Engineering, Construction contracts and work in specific field at least fifteen years such as Valuation of Building and Urban Laws, designing of building, building construction, architectural or structural designing of building, projects, dam, Govt. contracts etc. and at least five years experience in conduct of arbitration cases, law and procedure.

4. Chartered Accountants:
   Chartered Accountants/Chartered Secretaries with at least fifteen years experience and knowledge in the profession and at least five years experience in conduct of arbitration cases, law & procedures.

5. Executives:
   Company Secretaries and Senior legal and commercial executives in Government, public sector undertakings or private commercial organizations or Professor/Lecturer with at least fifteen years experience in the profession and at least five years experience of legal, arbitration or commercial matters.

6. Shipping:
   Having knowledge and at least five years experience of shipping laws practices and procedures, particularly in international matters at a senior level in a company or institution of standing or otherwise having a distinguished careers in shipping matters and at least five years experience in conduct of arbitration cases and maritime law.

7. Businessmen:
   Company Directors and other persons with outstanding reputation and experience in domestic or international trade for at least ten years and at least five years experience in the Arbitration Law & Procedure.

8. Foreign Nationals:
   Suitable persons of nationalities other than Indian resident in India or abroad who have adequate knowledge and at least fifteen years experience in commercial and arbitration procedures in any of the above categories.

9. Other Specialists:
   Persons having 15 years experience in any other specialized areas and have at least five years experience in the Arbitration Law & Procedure.