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THE GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT

THE GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVE INTERPRETATION

OF THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT

M.N. ZARUBINA,

Candidate of Legal Sciences,

Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure

of the Saratov State University Named After N.G. Chernyshevsky

S.Yu. KATUKOVA,

Candidate of Legal Sciences,

Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Procedure

of the Russian University of Justice (North-West Branch)

The article examines the alterations recently made to an arbitration agreement, and utilizes a new

approach which enables the agreement to be interpreted in the most effective way. The article

concludes that the validity and diligence of the arbitration agreements positively depend on the

formation of new arbitration institutions. It is necessary to observe the private law principles of

the procedure for protecting the rights and legitimate interests of citizens and organizations. The

main guarantee for this is the use of an effective interpretation of the arbitration agreement as

a principle and as a special method. The authors refer to the preconditions for a pro-arbitration

approach to the interpretation of the arbitration agreement, which appeared in the judicial

practice. This approach is conditioned by the need for a broad understanding of the scope of the

arbitration agreement, the forms and methods of its conclusion, in maintaining its strength when

changing parties in the obligation, when the transaction is declared invalid, if it has a reference to

the settlement of the dispute between the parties in the arbitration court, and to expand the list

of arbitration disputes. However, the boundaries for observing an effective interpretation of the

arbitration agreement should be outlined by the requirements for the procedure of the formulation

and conclusion of the arbitration agreement, to the signs of its validity and enforceability, and,

in general, to correspond to the protection of a bona fide party.

Keywords: arbitration agreement; arbitration court; access to courts; effective interpretation;

commentary; fair practices.

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Information about the author

Zarubina M.N. (Saratov, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor

of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure of the Saratov State University Named

After N.G. Chernyshevsky (410076, Saratov, Chernyshevskaya St., 55/3V, Room 45; e-mail:

[email protected]);

Katukova S.Yu. (St. Petersburg, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate

Professor of the Department of Civil Procedure of the Russian University of Justice

(North-West Branch) (197046, St. Petersburg, Aleksandrovsky Park, 5; e-mail:

[email protected]).

Recommended citation

Zarubina M.N., Katukova S.Yu. Printsip effektivnoj interpretatsii tretejskogo soglasheniya

[The Guidelines for Effective Interpretation of the Arbitration Agreement]. Вест-

ник гражданского процесса = Herald of Civil Procedure, 2018, no. 4, p. 267–278. (In

Russian) DOI: 10.24031/2226-0781-2018-8-4-267-278

M.N. ZARUBINA, S.Yu. KATUKOVA