In 2019, 869 new arbitration cases were registered with the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (‘Secretariat’ and ‘ICC Court’, respectively), of which 851 cases under the ICC Rules of Arbitration1 and 18 under the ICC Appointing Authority Rules.2 This is the second highest number of newly-registered cases behind the record figure of 966 cases reached in 2016, with 135 related small-claim cases arising from a collective dispute.

In 2019, the ICC International Centre for ADR (‘Centre’) received a total of 61 new cases registered under the Mediation Rules, Expert Rules, Dispute Board Rules and DOCDEX Rules.