RedSea Mediation & Arbitration Centre
Two routes to the end of a dispute.
Mediation, where the parties reach their own agreement, and arbitration, where a tribunal issues an award that binds them. Mediation is the cheaper and faster of the two and it is where most disputes should start. Either side can begin one, and invite the other, without instructing anybody first.
01Mediation
Invite the other side to the table.
Answer four questions and this page writes a formal Notice of Invitation to Mediate. Send it by WhatsApp, by email, or on paper. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent by the firm — the invitation is yours, and it goes from you.
02Arbitration
If mediation does not settle it, an award will.
Full hearing process, all sectors. Expert witness fees, venue rental and travel are arranged separately.
Indicative only. The tribunal sets the procedural timetable in each case. Nothing here constitutes legal advice.
03The four tracks
A dispute about a delayed building is not a dispute about spectrum.
Which is why the tracks differ in procedure and in length rather than only in name.
Full hearing process, all sectors.
Fast-track for urgent disputes, all sectors.
Construction contracts, payment disputes, delay claims, defects.
Interconnection, spectrum, service levels, mobile money.
Before you agree a clause
The question your counterparty’s counsel will ask first.
Any bank, operator or contractor with foreign counsel will ask where an award can be enforced before it agrees to arbitrate anywhere. It is the right question, and a clause drafted without an answer to it tends not to survive negotiation.
Seat, applicable rules and the enforceability position are settled with the firm before the clause is signed, not after a dispute has crystallised. Ask us for them while the contract is still being drafted, which is the only point at which the answer is worth anything.
Independence
The Centre does not administer a dispute the firm is acting in.
An institution that might also be one side’s counsel has a problem no procedural rule can fix. So the Centre’s register, its files and its appointments are kept apart from the firm’s practice, and the firm does not accept instructions in any mediation or arbitration the Centre is administering. That is also why the invitation above is written in your browser and sent by you: until both parties agree to mediate, the Centre holds nothing and knows nothing about the dispute.