HIBAPRESS – Agadir
The administrative complex of the Agadir Bar Association hosted, on Friday, November 14th, the work of the national conference on commercial arbitration as a lever for modernizing justice, improving the business climate, and encouraging investment in Morocco; which was organized by the Union of Lawyers in Agadir, Guelmim, and Laayoune in partnership with the International Center for Arbitration and Mediation in Morocco and the International Center for Arbitration and Mediation in Casablanca.
Professor Mohamed El Khrakat, the president of the Union of Lawyers in Agadir, Guelmim, and Laayoune, explained in an opening speech on the occasion that this symposium comes in the context of hosting the ongoing discussion about commercial arbitration, considering it the most prominent issues of modern justice in a scientific complex that brings together the elite of law, the judiciary, and investment in a way that understands the position of arbitration within the legal system in our country". Professor El Khrakat highlighted in his intervention the role of commercial arbitration in modernizing the business climate and enhancing investment confidence in Morocco, and in consideration of the importance of arbitration as a civilized option for resolving disputes. The conference sessions were divided into scientific sessions with interventions by a number of legal and academic frameworks and economic actors on topics mainly related to commercial arbitration between the legal text and practical practice, and an analytical reading of Law No. 95_17 related to arbitration and contractual mediation, framed by Dr. Ryad Fakhri, director of the Business Law Research Laboratory at Hassan I University in Settat, and an intervention by Dr. Imad Eddine Hussein, the arbitrator and mediator at the Singapore International Academy for Dispute Resolution, entitled "The Universality of Arbitration and Lessons Learned from the Singapore Experience", while the intervention of Dr. Abdelwahab Laabel addressed a محور يتعلق بتقنية صياغة الحكم التحكيمي على ضوء العمل القضائي والمستجدات التشريعية. The organizing body of the conference also programmed interventions that included topics related to tax disputes and the question of arbitration for Dr. Ibrahim Ahtab and arbitration in investment disputes within the free industrial zones in Morocco for Professor Mohamed El Khrakat. The programming related to the second scientific session revolved around a topic related to arbitration as a tool to improve the business climate and enhance investment confidence in Morocco, with interventions on the Dispute Resolution Council for Dr. Hicham El Bakfawi, arbitration and contractual mediation between legislation and the constraints of application framed by Dr. Younes Oukhlift, and the principle of transparency of procedures in electronic arbitration for Dr. Abdelhadi El Harfaoui, and the legal guarantees for arbitration procedures for Professor Hanan Belko. In addition, the second day of the conference included a training course on commercial arbitration for the benefit of a number of those interested in generalizing the scientific benefit from the conference’s conclusions.
