SCCA represents Saudi Arabia on UN’s CLOUT Steering Committee – Saudi Gazette

SCCA represents Saudi Arabia on UN’s CLOUT Steering Committee – Saudi Gazette

RIYADH — Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA), in partnership with the National Competitiveness Center (NCC), and with the support of the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Commerce, has been appointed as the official representative of Saudi Arabia to the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) legal database, the Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts (CLOUT) system, and a member of the recently inaugurated CLOUT Steering Committee.

With this appointment, Saudi Arabia is the only Arab country on this committee, which has members representing 12 countries from around the world. The SCCA’s work on the committee will parallel its efforts to start publishing Saudi judgments related to arbitration and mediation on CLOUT.

CLOUT is an international platform for the dissemination of information on court judgments and arbitral awards based on UNCITRAL conventions and model laws. Its purpose is to facilitate the uniform interpretation of UNCITRAL texts by reference to international standards consistent with the international nature of these legal texts.

CLOUT presents case law on the texts of UN conventions and laws, in particular the UN Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (also called the New York Convention of 1958), the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration,