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FOREWORD

These IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration (‘IBA Rules of Evidence’) have been prepared by a Working Party of Committee D (Arbitration and ADR) of the Section on Business Law of the International Bar Association. The IBA has issued these Rules as a resource to parties and to arbitrators in order to enable them to conduct the evidence phase of international arbitration proceedings in an efficient and economical manner. The Rules provide mechanisms for the presentation of documents, witnesses of fact, expert witnesses and inspections, as well as for the conduct of evidentiary hearings. The Rules are designed to be used in conjunction with, and adopted together with, institutional or ad hoc rules or procedures governing international commercial arbitrations. These IBA Rules of Evidence replace the IBA Supplementary Rules Governing the Presentation and Reception of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration, originally issued in 1983. The IBA Rules of Evidence reflect procedures in use in many different legal systems, and they may be particularly useful when the parties come from different legal cultures.