Posts from ICCA

The 2022 ICCA Conference has just taken place in Edinburgh. Here are the posts that I wrote over the five days that I was there.

#arbitration #disputeresolution #law

Saturday 17 September 2022

Edinburgh, an Enlightenment city.?ICCA 2022 Edinburgh, finally.

Sunday 18 September 2022

Opening ceremony of?ICCA 2022 Edinburgh.

Wonderful music, and smiles and good company. But in a period of national mourning, and a conference postponed repeatedly because of a terrible pandemic, one can’t help but also remember the good friends we’ve lost along the way.

And, as the song goes on, in this bright future we can’t forget our past. So dry our tears and mingle with the good people we meet. Everything’s going to be alright.

Monday 19 September 2022

On a day full of meaning, the first session I went to today at?ICCA 2022 Edinburgh?(after watching the Queen’s funeral) was all about key arbitration cases from the past, and the common thread running through the presentations was the promotion of the rule of law.

It’s fitting that a conference which is mostly a professional, networking event should focus on the rule of law. The connections between people are important but so are the higher ideals. Without these life would be, as a Scotsman once said (in a play written by an Englishman), but a walking shadow, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Tuesday 20 September 2022

The third day of?ICCA 2022 Edinburgh?for me was all about old friends, and meeting people I haven’t seen in person in several years.

We are social animals, and this is a social activity, or as Maya Angelou put it, nobody, but nobody can make it out here alone.

Or more appropriately as the Scottish poet said, we’ll tak a cup o' kindness yet, for days of auld lang syne.

Wednesday 21 September 2022

Farewell to?ICCA 2022 Edinburgh.

Of all the money that e'er I had

I spent it in good company

And all the harm I've ever done

Alas it was to none but me

And all I've done for want of wit

To mem'ry now I can't recall

So fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be to you all