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ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
The 17th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration took place from 11-12 November 2019.
ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
The 19th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on international arbitration took place at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel from 13-14 December 2021.
The 19th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on international arbitration took place at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel from 13-14 December 2021.
ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
The 19th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on international arbitration took place at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel from 13-14 December 2021.
The 19th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on international arbitration took place at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel from 13-14 December 2021.
The 17th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration took place from 11-12 November 2019.
ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
The 17th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration took place from 11-12 November 2019.
Bus operators congregate April 26, 1946 outside the bus depot of the Washington, Virginia & Maryland (WV&M) bus line at N. Quincey Street and Wilson Blvd. in Arlington, Va. on the first day of a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motorcoach Employees of America Division 1079.
The 250 workers walked out after the company refused arbitration and issued a notice of termination of the existing contract.
The company, also known as the Arnold Bus Line after its owner Leon Arnold, refused to arbitrate the issue until a request for a fare increase was acted on by the Arlington Public Utilities Commission and promised to continue to pay the current pay and benefits while negotiations continued—although the workers would be without a contract.
The union was demanding raises for operators of 30 cents-per-hour and as much as 42 cents-per-hour for mechanics.
The company served about 1,250,000 passengers per month at the time in Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church, Clarendon, Westover, Langley, McLean, Tyson’s corner, Vienna and Oakton with Washington, D.C. terminals at 11th Street between E and F Streets NW and at 9th and Constitution Ave. NW.
The strike took place against a backdrop of a nationwide strike wave 1945-46 following World War II that involved work stoppages by millions of workers. Workers’ wages in the country continued to be regulated by a war-era wage board despite the end of the conflict.
The strike was settled on May 3rd when the company acquiesced to the union’s demand for arbitration and an agreement to continue negotiations in the interim.
On May 23rd, a three member arbitration panel voted to award a 12 cent-per-hour increase with the union arbitrator dissenting.
This was not the end of the story, however. The government Wage Stabilization Board cut the pay increase to nine cents-per-hour on June 12, 1946.
Angry workers already felt cheated. The Capital Transit Company across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. paid $1.14 per hour. The initial increase only brought them to $0.98 per hour, but was now cut to $0.95 per hour for operators.
However at a union meeting held at the Ballston Fire House, members defeated a motion to resume their strike and reluctantly accepted the outcome.
The WV&M company was eventually bought by D.C. Transit, but continued to operate as a separate company until acquired by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in 1973. Local 1079 was also merged into the larger Local 689 at that time that represented transit workers in the District of Columbia.
The Arlington bus garage was closed in 2009 and ultimately demolished to make way for redevelopment in the town.
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The 17th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration took place from 11-12 November 2019.
The 17th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration took place from 11-12 November 2019.
A meeting at the Cambodian Arbitration Council. © ILO
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ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
On 15 May 1932, William Pember Reeves – described as one of the most distinguished politicians and thinkers produced in New Zealand – died in London, aged 75. ‘Reeves was generally regarded as the intellectual guiding force behind the Liberal reforms of the 1890s’ notes Ron Palenski, ‘but an uneasy relationship between him and the Premier, Richard Seddon, led to him going to London as agent-general in 1896.’
One piece of legislation that Reeves drew up had a dramatic effect on the history of New Zealand. This was the 1894 Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, which recognised trade unions and set ‘awards’ for things like pay and conditions, and formed arbitration courts to settle disputes with employers. In return, unions lost the right to go on strike while a dispute was being negotiated, and once an agreement had been settled.
As Te Ara notes, ‘the I. C. and A. system was the first in the world and attracted great international interest.’ For a period unions were generally satisfied with the system, ensuring security after the turbulence of the 1890s. However radical unionists became dissatisfied with the I.C. and A. Act, claiming the courts refused to match wages with the huge profits made by the larger employers. Strikes erupted in 1906, 1907 and 1908, leading to the creation of the ‘Red’ Federation of Labour, which de-registered from the Act. Bitter struggles in Waihi in 1912, and the Great Strike of 1913 followed. Despite this, and although ‘later legislation made many changes to the original Act, the basic arbitration system remained in place for almost a century.’
Disputes were initially heard by a local conciliation board, and if no agreement was reached, the dispute went to a national arbitration court. This map shows the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act districts for the North Island c.1897-1900.
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Blackstock family vault in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Canada. One of more than a dozen of the occupants of the vault is lawyer George Tate Blackstock (April 1, 1856 - December 27, 1921). After a morning rain, fall 2021. Pentax K1 II.
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A biography of G.T. Blackstock from www.biographi.ca/en/bio/blackstock_george_tate_15E.html
BLACKSTOCK, GEORGE TATE, lawyer; b. 1 April 1856 in Newcastle, Upper Canada, son of William Schenck Blackstock and Mary Hodge Gibbs; m. 25 Feb. 1880 Emiline (Emma) Moulton Fraser in Bay City, Mich., and they had two sons and a daughter; d. 27 Dec. 1921 in Toronto.
George Tate Blackstock’s childhood was marked by hardship and uncertainty. His father was a Wesleyan Methodist minister of Scottish-Irish descent, and for many years the family led a migratory life on the ministerial circuit. Despite frugal domestic management, they often struggled, living on credit and accepting food and other commodities in lieu of salary, which many poorer communities could not afford. Sometimes the children stayed with relatives of their mother, a member of a prominent family in Oshawa, Ont. A knowledge of the Bible, Shakespeare, and classical literature was assiduously cultivated by William Blackstock in his children. Following the Blackstocks’ move to Goderich, George briefly attended grammar school there. Largely owing to his mother’s inheritance and the assistance of her family, in 1871 he was admitted to Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he studied rhetoric. Intent on a career in law, he entered Osgoode Hall in 1874 and graduated four years later.
Called to the bar in 1879, Blackstock worked initially with the Toronto firm of Rose, Macdonald, and Merritt, and rapidly established a reputation as an accomplished civil lawyer. Said to have possessed a commanding physical presence in the courtroom, he was described as “a dark-haired, good looking fellow, with an easy and friendly gift of conversation and an entire freedom from restraint or nervousness on social occasions.” In 1880-81 he lectured at Osgoode Hall on the Statute of Frauds as part of a series organized by the school’s Legal and Literary Society. He joined Wells, Gordon, and Sampson in 1882 but soon left to open his own practice, where he would handle both civil and criminal litigation. As counsel for the Canadian Pacific Railway between 1881 and 1894, he participated in the arbitration proceedings between the railway and the dominion government in connection with western development. One of the first trustees of the York County Law Association in 1885, on 2 Dec. 1889 he was appointed a federal qc. In 1890 his skilful, though unsuccessful defence of Reginald Birchall* in a sensational murder trial considerably enhanced his standing as a pre-eminent trial lawyer.
In 1892 Blackstock joined Beatty, Blackstock, Nesbitt, and Chadwick, a firm that was strongly rooted in Toronto’s Conservative establishment, and where his brother, Thomas Gibbs Blackstock, and David Fasken were both successful corporate lawyers. As one of the first partners with a barrister’s practice, George helped establish its reputation in litigation. Blackstock was secured for many important actions, both as a defence counsel and as a crown prosecutor. He was involved in two high-profile cases of alleged combines: in 1909 he unsuccessfully prosecuted the Dominion Wholesale Grocers’ Guild, which he denounced as “an iron heel on the neck of the people,” and in 1913 he found insufficient evidence to prosecute the Stamped Ware Association, which included the firm of John McClary. One of his most notable moments as a crown counsel occurred in Hamilton in 1909 during the inquest into the murder of Ethel Caroline Kinrade, which aroused intense national coverage in the media. The chief witness, the victim’s sister, was subjected to a gruelling cross-examination by Blackstock that was dramatically punctuated by her fainting after he had implicated her in the crime. Upon returning from one of his annual trips to England in May 1913, Blackstock and four other lawyers left Beatty Blackstock to form a new firm, Blackstock, Galt, and Gooderham.
A Conservative and passionate advocate of imperial unity, Blackstock had been encouraged to enter politics by his uncles Thomas Nicholson Gibbs* and William Henry Gibbs, both of whom served in the government of Sir John A. Macdonald*. During the 1880s Blackstock and Macdonald corresponded on a variety of issues; on three occasions, for example, Blackstock interceded unsuccessfully on behalf of William Albert Reeve* for a judgeship in Manitoba. He was returned in neither of the constituencies in which he ran: the provincial seat of Lennox (1884, 1885) and the federal riding of Durham West (1887, 1891). Macdonald’s death and the decline of the party seem to have put an end to his ambitions, though he remained active on party committees and distinguished himself as a tireless campaigner for the Conservative cause.
Blackstock was renowned for his eloquence and wit as an orator and was frequently invited to banquets, political rallies, and prominent society gatherings in Canada, Britain, and the United States. “I am feted everywhere,” he wrote from New York in 1903, “dinners and luncheons all the time. . . . They all say I am the best known private foreigner in the U.S.” His speeches and articles in the press, generally on political themes, were widely quoted. Addressing the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association in September 1907, he appealed for “a loftier conception of Imperial duty” and criticized Canada’s poor contribution to the maintenance of the British armed forces and the burdens of empire. A speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto earlier the same month was hailed by Saturday Night as “the wittiest and most entertaining of the year and the one most direct in its appeal, which was for high ideals of Canadian citizenship and statesmanship.” In March 1911 he founded, with Alexander Whyte Wright* and mla Arthur Clarence Pratt, the Canadian branch of the Imperial Mission, an English association, and was elected its first president. The branch decided to promote imperial unity by fighting against reciprocity, then being championed by the government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier*. Blackstock’s reputation in England was prodigious; he had been in great demand as a speaker for the National Conservative Union during the British election of 1910, and he later declined several invitations to run for parliament.
Blackstock suffered illnesses that forced him on occasion to neglect his legal career, and these were complicated by his personal circumstances. In the 1890s he had become increasingly distraught over “domestic worries.” He confided to a friend that “when waiting for his turn to address the court the perspiration would drop off his finger-ends.” Medical specialists in New York and Toronto, among them Dr Daniel Clark*, diagnosed him as a “chronic, hysterical hypochondriac,” and he spent time in several American institutions. His wife divorced him on 1 Oct. 1896 in Newport, R.I., on the grounds of non-support, though it remains unclear, as a history of Beatty Blackstock puts it, “whether his family problems were the source or the result of his personal difficulties.” Eventually, failing health and impaired eyesight obliged him to withdraw from active practice altogether.
Prior to the outbreak of World War I, he again fell ill, in England, and he eventually returned to Canada, where he was cared for by two of his sisters. He lived in Buffalo, N.Y., for some time after the war. Following his death at his Toronto home, he was widely eulogized. One friend, a prominent member of the New York bar, eloquently captured the loss felt by many when he said, “It is an example of the utter prodigality of nature to have endowed this man with so many brilliant and engaging qualities and then to have wrecked his physical power and left him so helpless in the prime of life.”
ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR - Commission Meeting at the Salons Hoche in Paris on Tuesday 28th March 2023.
The 17th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration took place from 11-12 November 2019.
The 17th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration took place from 11-12 November 2019.
ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
The 17th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration took place from 11-12 November 2019.
ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
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ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
ICC Russia, one of our National Committees, held an engaging discussion on cross-border insolvency, as well as disputes involving Russian state-owned companies on 11 April 2018 during Paris Arbitration Week. The afternoon event was held at the offices of White and Case in Paris.
The 17th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration took place from 11-12 November 2019.
ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
ICC’s 6th European Conference on International Arbitration. 28 March 2022, Intercontinental Hotel, Paris
On 3 April 2019, the ICC Russia Commission on Arbitration held a series of debate and a traditional pancake party in honour of Paris Arbitration Week.
The 3rd edition of the ICC European Conference on International Arbitration, the kickoff event of Paris Arbitration Week, took place on 1 April 2019.
The 19th edition of the ICC Miami Conference on international arbitration took place at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel from 13-14 December 2021.
On 10 November 2019, the ICC Institute of World Business Law held a training on navigating interim measures in international arbitration. The seminar took place ahead of the annual ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration.
The ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and the ICC Commission on Environment and Energy launched a report on resolving climate change-related disputes through arbitration and ADR. The global launch was held in Paris, France on 28 November 2019 at White & Case.
ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR - Commission Meeting at the Salons Hoche in Paris on Tuesday 28th March 2023.
On 2 April 2019, the second day of Paris Arbitration Week, the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR held their annual Spring meeting in Paris.
The 4th edition of the ICC Africa Conference on International Arbitration was held in Lagos, Nigeria from 18-19 June 2019.