CYIL 2014

ZUZANA JAHODNÍKOVÁ – CYIL 5 ȍ2014Ȏ prostředků, jejichž úkolem je tento jev předvídat, a pokud k němu dojde, efektivně řešit jeho negativní vliv. Autoři mají dále za cíl, s odkazem na mezinárodní instituty a praxi, představit návrhy na řešení problému paralelismu a nastínit možné alterna tivní řešení současného systému. Autoři si ve finále kladou otázku, zda se mohou dvě paralelní řízení najednou střetnout, a pokud ano, které z nich má z tohoto střetu vyjít jako vítězné. Key words: Parallelism, parallel proceedings, lis pendens, res judicata, triple identity test, consolidation, anti-suit injunctions, anti-suit orders, fork-in-the road, comity, choice of forum, arbitration rules, New York Convention, Kompetenz-Kompetenz, investment disputes, international arbitration, jurisdiction. On the Authors: Mgr. Zuzana Jahodníková, LL.M., is a junior lawyer at ROWAN LEGAL (Bratislava). After graduating from the University of P. J. Šafárik in Košice (Slovakia), she attended Leiden University (the Netherlands), where she was awarded an LLM Cum laude title in European law. She focuses her practice on litigation and counselling relating to disputes with foreign aspects. Her main areas of interests are in European Union law, European protection of human rights and international dispute settlement methods. JUDr. Ing. Miloš Olík. LL.M., is the head of ROWAN LEGAL’s dispute resolution practice, where he specializes in investment disputes, international commercial arbitration, sport arbitration and various forms of alternative dispute resolution. He has considerable experience in arbitration proceedings under the rules of ICC, ICSID, SCC, the Arbitration Court Attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, the Arbitration Court of the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and, additionally, under ad hoc rules, including the UNCITRAL Rules. Miloš Olík has also sat as arbitrator in national and international commercial disputes, domain name disputes and consumer disputes. He has been included on the LCIA’s database of neutrals, the VIAC’s List of Practitioners in International Arbitration and HKIAC’s List of Arbitrators. He is also on the list of arbitrators of the Football Association of the Czech Republic. He is the author and co-author of a number of professional articles and publications. 1. Introductory remarks At first glance, the concept of arbitration has as its pivot the idea of introducing a case to a neutral forum created by parties to the dispute who have agreed to this step. Besides this main inducement, arbitration offers investors lucrative features, such as: participation in the adjudicator selection process; active engagement in the dispute resolution process; the possibility to take part in a dispute resolution process which is devoid of excessive formalism and allows access to confidential proceedings which are normally held behind closed doors; and the opportunity to be given an effective apparatus when it comes to any eventual award enforcement. MILOŠ OLÍK

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