Barry Leon
Torys LLP

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Scope of Arbitrable Disputes Under Arbitration Clauses
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Canada a Major Player in 2006 for International Arbitration
The Lawyers Weekly, January 20, 2006
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Special Considerations When a State is a Party to International Arbitration -- Why Arbitrating Against A State is Different: 12 Key Reasons
American Arbitration Association's Dispute Resolution Journal, February - April 2006

Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto member Barry Leon co-authored an article in the American Arbitration Association's Dispute Resolution Journal that discusses12 special considerations that may make an arbitration to which a state is a party different from an arbitration in which all parties are private commercial entities. The article outlines the potential consequences of the differences for both a state party and a private party. It explains why participants must understand the differences or risk being unpleasantly surprised, and how an appreciation of the differences and their consequences enables attorneys to represent their clients more effectively and arbitrators to conduct arbitrations more effectively.
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Competitors Band Together
Law Times, December 2005

Law Times featured the Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto is a front page article headed "Compeititors Bank Together". Law Times said "A group of Toronto's leading commercail litigators and academics, who can often be found arguing on opposite sides of the courtroom, have banded toether with a common goal:  to promote the broader use of arbitration in commercial disputes and to promote Toronto as the location to do it."
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Canada on the World Stage in International Arbitration
The Journal of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, May 2006

In an article in the prestigeous Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto member Barry Leon described international arbitration activity in Canada and the increasing attention that Canada has garnered in recent years in the world of international arbitration. He explained how that attention expanded in 2006, strengthening the platform for significant growth, with two major international conferences that highlighted the arbitration world’s focus on Canada:  the 17th Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) held May 31 to June 3 in Montreal, and the 72nd Biennial Conference of the International Law Association’s (“ILA 2006”), featuring a three-day International Arbitration Programme, held June 4 to 8 in Toronto.
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The Future of International Law:  The ILA comes to Canada
NUVO, Summer 2006

Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto members play a leading role in organizing the 72nd Biennial Conference of the International Law Association (“ILA 2006”), featuring a three-day International Arbitration Programme,  in Toronto in June 2006.  Roundtable members Janet Walker and Barry Leon were Co-chairs of the Conference, Bill Horton was Programme Committee Co-chair, John Judge was on the Steering Committee, and Robert Wisner organized a programme on the enforcement of arbitral awards. The Roundtable hosted a dinner for the ILA's Committee on International Commercial Arbitration and speakers on the ILA 2006's arbitration programmes. Canadian lifestyle magazine, NUVO, did a feature article on the Conference in its Summer 2006 issue in which Bill, Barry and Janet were quoted extensively.
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