The Accuracy of Fact Witness Memory in International Arbitration: Current Issues and Possible Solutions is a Report of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. The Report was unanimously approved by the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR at its 21 September 2019 meeting in Seoul.

Two Appendices entitled ‘Selected Review of Scientific Literature relating to Memory and Witness Evidence’ and ‘An Experimental Test of the Reliability of Witness Memory in a Business Context’, authored by Ula Cartwright-Finch and Dr Kimberley A. Wade, form an essential part of this Report.

Following an official ICC Global Launch, the full Report will be made available at http://www.iccwbo.org/commission-arbitration-ADR and included in the ICC Digital Library (https://library.iccwbo.org/dr-commissionreports.htm).

Acknowledgements

Christopher Newmark, (former) Chair and Vice-Chair to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR at the time the Task Force ‘Maximising the Probative Value of Witness Evidence’ was established and during its work.

José I. Astigarraga and Ragnar Harbst, Co-Chairs of the Task Force. The Task Force is deeply grateful to Dr Kimberley A. Wade (Professor, Department of Psychology of the University of Warwick) for her insights and work in support of the Task Force, with the assistance of Divya Sukumar.

Carita Wallgren-Lindholm, Chair, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR; Hélène van Lith, Secretary to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.

Task Force Members: Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Peter Aeberli, Timur Aitkulov, Ziya Akinci, Omar Aljazi, Miguel Almada, Mauricio Almeida Prado, Gabriela Álvarez-Ávila, Koorosh Ameli, Héctor Anaya Mondragón, Homayoon Arfazadeh, Christian Aschauer, Hamid Reza Aslani, José Gabriel Assis De Almeida, Davor Babić, Hans Bagner, Baruch Baigel, Louise Barrington, José Maria Beneyto, Laura Bergamini, Vincent Kizito Beyuo, Jorge Bofill, Stephen R. Bond, Dominique Brown-Berset, Florian Cahn, Ula Cartwright-Finch, Philippa Charles, Michelangelo Cicogna, Bruce Collins, Shawn Conway, Giuditta Cordero-Moss, Eduardo Damião Gonçalves, Nadia Darwazeh, Miroslav Dubovsky, Pierre Duprey, Jacob Enoch, Lazimi Fatos, Markus Fellner, Marcelo Roberto Ferro, Eliane Fischer, Cecilia Flores Rueda, Yoshimasa Furuta, Joe-Kyari Gadzama, Henriette Gernaa, Diego B. Gosis, Jacob Grierson, Susanne Gropp-Stadler, Philippe Groz, Julio Gutierrez Morales, Nick Gvinadze, George Hazboun, Clifford Hendel, Triinu Hiob, Pascal Hollander, Anthony Hussey, Laurent Jaeger, Maciej Jamka, Charles Jarrosson, Shreyas Jayasimha, Sapna Jhangiani, Daniel Kalderimis, Joshua Karton, Paul Keres, Katharina Kitzberger, Yaroslav Klimov, Gisela Knuts, Christopher Koch, Maria Kostytska, Michael Kotrly, Phillip Landolt, Marc-Olivier Langlois, Christopher Lau Sc, David Lederman, William Leung, Timothy Lindsay, Rafael Llano Oddone, Adrian Magallanes Pérez, Volker Mahnken, Carole Malinvaud, Sofia Martins, Octavio Fragata Martins De Barros, Pierre Mayer, John Lorne McDougall, Elina Mereminskaya, Juan Felipe Merizalde, Pedro Metello De Nápoles, Nathalie Meyer-Fabre, Reza Mohtashami, Patricia Nacimiento, Charles Nairac, Kieron O'Callaghan, Elizabeth Oger-Gross, Lluís Paradell, Alison Pearsall, Karl Poernbacher, Majid Pourostad, Marek Procházka, Maria Claudia Procopiak, Stefan Riegler, José Antonio Rivas, Kim Rooney, Margaret Ryan, Sabina Sacco, Marwan Sakr, Pontus Scherp, Nils Schmidt-Ahrendts, Eduardo Silva Romero, Inés Sola, Dominic Spenser Underhill, Gonzalo Stampa, Christopher Style, Nicola Swan, Ana-Maria Tamminen, Mercedes Tarrazón, Shaunak Thacker, Stamatios Tsetos, Nicolas Ulmer, Melanie Van Leeuwen, Herman W. Verbist, Maria Vicien Milburn, Tomasz Wardyński, Urs Weber-Stecher, Jane Willems, Violetta Wysok, Jennifer Younan

With final thanks to Jennifer Jones (Assistant, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR), Stephanie Torkomyan (Publications Manager, ICC Dispute Resolution Services) and Claire Héraud (Publications Senior Assistant, ICC Dispute Resolution Services).