On 22 October 2019, the Asian International Arbitration Centre
("AIAC") published its 2018 statistics,
showing a steady maintenance of its arbitration caseload.
Throughout the years, there has been sustained efforts by the
Malaysian government and legal community to promote arbitration as
a dispute resolution process of choice for Malaysian parties, with
the AIAC largely at the forefront of this endeavour.
In this post, we navigate the trend of Malaysian participation
and usage of institutional arbitration based on published
statistics of leading arbitral institutions across the world.
Asian International Arbitration Centre
Notwithstanding a steeply increasing caseload of Malaysian
construction adjudication registered year-on-year, the AIAC
(formerly the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration)
continues to maintain a steady yearly arbitration caseload, from 62
cases (55 domestic and 7 international) registered in 2016 to
approximately 100 cases
