Prepare a challenge to an arbitrator within the time limit
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the arbitrator’s disclosures, the conflict searches and the facts the client has learned, record the date the client became aware of each circumstance, calculate the challenge deadline, and set out the facts relevant to justifiable doubts about impartiality or independence with references.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer decides whether the facts give justifiable doubts, whether to challenge (and the tactical cost of doing so), drafts the challenge, and lodges it within time.
- Written for / version
- US
Open a jurisdiction version of this task to see which instruments apply: US
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the arbitrator’s disclosures, the conflict searches and the facts the client has learned, record the date the client became aware of each circumstance, calculate the challenge deadline, and set out the facts relevant to justifiable doubts about impartiality or independence with references. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Confirm the arbitral material may go into the tool under the confidentiality provisions, the rules and any procedural order before it is used.
- Confirm the awareness date from the documents, not memory.
- Check whether the rules or the parties’ agreement set a different challenge procedure.
- Confirm the client’s instructions to challenge in writing.
Sources
- International Arbitration Act 1974 (Cth) Sch 2, UNCITRAL Model Law · 2026-10-18
- ACICA Arbitration Rules 2021 incorporating Emergency Arbitrator Provisions · 2026-10-18
These are suggested working checks. Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts; the checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.