第三方资助仲裁之披露义务规则探析

A Probe into the Disclosure Obligation Rules of Third-Party Funded Arbitration

第三方资助仲裁作为国际仲裁领域的新兴事物,在为国际商事主体提供争议纠纷解决机会的同时,也对仲裁的公正性、保密性等内在价值造成了冲击,而解决这一问题的关键就在于对第三方资助仲裁中的披露义务进行架构。通过对域外实践和立法经验的现状研究,可以看到通过合理的信息披露手段能够有效地解决第三方引入所造成的利益冲突等问题,使仲裁的公正性和保密性达到平衡。为此需要将披露的主体扩大到受资助者,并在强制性披露第三方资助者存在及身份的基础上,由仲裁员依照客观标准对资助协议具体内容的披露与否进行裁定。同时为使信息披露在第三方资助仲裁中效用最大化,应当规定具体的时间要求当事人以书面形式披露有关信息。

As an emerging thing in the field of international arbitration,third-party funded arbitration not only provides opportunities for international commercial subjects to resolve disputes,but also has an impact on the impartiality,confidentiality and other intrinsic values of arbitration.And the key to solving this problem is to establish the disclosure obligation.By studying the current situation of extraterritorial practice and legislative experience,we can see that reasonable means of information disclosure can effectively address the conflicts of interests caused by TPF and balance impartiality and confidentiality of the arbitration.To this end,it is necessary to expand the scope of the subject of disclosure to cover the funded person.And on the basis of mandatory disclosure of the funder’s existence and identity,the arbitrator will decide whether to disclose the specific content of the funding agreement according to objective criteria.What’s more,in order to maximize the effectiveness of information disclosure in TPF,we should set a time frame for the parties to disclose relevant information in written form.