London Court of International Arbitration

"On 5 April 1883, the Court of Common Council of the City of London set up a committee to draw up proposals for the establishment of a tribunal for the arbitration of domestic and, in particular, of trans-national commercial disputes arising within the ambit of the City. ...

The Chamber was formally inaugurated on 23 November 1892 ... In April 1903, the tribunal was re-named the "London Court of Arbitration" and, two years later, the Court moved from the Guildhall to the nearby premises of the London Chamber of Commerce. The Court's administrative structure remained largely unchanged for the next seventy years.

In 1975, the Institute of Arbitrators (later the Chartered Institute) joined the other two administering bodies and the earlier arbitration committee became the "Joint Management Committee", reduced in size from the original twenty four members to eighteen, six representatives from each of the three organisations. The Director of the Institute of Arbitrators became the Registrar of the London Court of Arbitration.

In 1981, the name of the Court was changed to “The London Court of International Arbitration", to reflect the nature of its work, which was, by that time, predominantly international." *

* from the LCIA website

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Rules

LCIA Arbitration Rules (1998)

LCIA Arbitration Rules (2014)

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