ELI President, Prof Dr Pascal Pichonnaz, welcomed the participants and gave a brief introduction of ELI, ELI High Level Expert Group (HLEG) meetings and their aims.
Participating experts then discussed the on-going work by other organisations in the field, namely the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Council of Europe’s European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) and the European Commission, as well as legal issues arising in their respective fields and countries. They also considered the scope of a potential future ELI project, including legal aspects to be covered and the methodology to be adopted, among other things.
Stefaan Voet (Chair; Professor, KU Leuven; Co-Chair of ELI Dispute Resolution SIG), Ulrike Frauenberger-Pfeiler (Assistant Professor, University of Vienna), Judith Knieper (Legal Officer, UNCITRAL), Haldi Koit (Legislative Officer, Unit A1 Civil Justice, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission), Paul Oberhammer (Professor, University of Vienna), Jens Scherpe (Director of Cambridge Family Law; Professor, University of Cambridge; ELI Council Member), Rimantas Simaitis (Chair of the CEPEJ Working Group on Mediation, Council of Europe; Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution Department, Cobalt Legal), Srđan Šimac (Judge, High Commercial Court of the Republic of Croatia; President, Croatian Mediation Association), Maciej Tański (Mediator; co-founder of the Partners Poland Mediation Center (Centrum Mediacji Partners Polska – CMPP)), Lord John Thomas (ELI’s First Vice-President), Sir Geoffrey Vos (Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales), Christiane Wendehorst (ELI’s Scientific Director) and Aleš Zalar (President of the European Centre for Dispute Resolution (ECDR); ELI Council Member) participated in the meeting. They were joined by Jonathan Haddad (UNCITRAL) and by Katja Kolman (ELI Senior Project Officer).
ELI is immensely grateful to the participants for their valuable ideas and reflections, which will be further consolidated and then considered by the ELI Executive Committee.
