Effective Commercial Arbitration: A Conversation with Robert Armstrong, Ian Binnie, and Stephen Goudge

• Author: Shantona Chaudhury
• Pages: 291-301

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chapter ten

Ef‌fective Commercial Arbitration:

AConversation with Robert Armstrong,

Ian Binnie, and Stephen Goudge

shAntonA ChAudhury

The following is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation I had

on 3 October 2016 with three eminent former litigators and appel-

late judges who are now highly regarded commercial arbitrators.

The Hon Robert P Armstrong, QC, retired from the Ontario Court

of Appeal in 2013 and is now a resident arbitrator at Arbitration

Place. The Hon W Ian C Binnie, CC, QC, retired from the Supreme

Court of Canada in 2011 and is now a member arbitrator at Arbitra-

tion Place and counsel to Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Grin LLP.

The Hon Stephen Goudge retired from the Ontario Court of Ap-

peal in 2014 and is now counsel to Paliare Roland Rosenberg Roth-

stein LLP. These three distinguished arbitrators were kind enough

to share their thoughts, experience, and wisdom on a number of

topics relating to eective commercial arbitration.

A. ON ARBITRATION AS COMPARED WITH COURT

ADJUDICATION

: How does arbitration dier from court adjudication? Is it a more ef-

fective form of dispute resolution?

:In my experience, the lawyers who present arbitration cases

are a little more interested in getting to a result as eectively and