The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has released its
dispute resolution statistics for 2019, which demonstrate a busy
year for the ICC with a high number of newly registered cases
across the world. As per the statistics, last year, the ICC
International Court of Arbitration ("ICC Court")
registered 869 new cases, of which 851 cases were under the ICC
Rules of Arbitration and 18 cases were under its Appointing
Authority rules.
Notable highlights of the 2019 statistics include the increasing
popularity of arbitration and the diversity of the nationalities of
the parties and the geographical origins and gender of the
arbitrators.
Overall caseload
The year 2019 holds the second highest number of newly
registered cases, behind the record figure of 966 cases in 2016. As
of the end of 2019, the ICC Court had recorded 1,694 pending cases
and 869 of them were newly registered. Turkey remained the most
represented nationality within Central and Eastern Europe with
