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Hohe Anforderungen an mündliche Verfahrensrügen in Schiedsverhandlungen
Axel Buhr; in: dRSK, 19.03.2013
Com­men­tary on Swiss Fed­er­al Tri­bunal deci­sion 4A_407/2012 on February 20, 2013

In line with long­stand­ing jurispru­dence of the Swiss Fed­er­al Tri­bunal, a par­ty is at risk of for­feit­ing its right to object to a poten­tial vio­la­tion of its pro­ce­dur­al rights if it fails to raise an objec­tion imme­di­ate­ly after the event con­cerned. The require­ments of the Swiss Fed­er­al Tri­bunal for objec­tions which are oral­ly raised by a par­ty dur­ing a hear­ing are there­by con­sid­er­able: The deci­sion con­cerned shows that even in a case where a par­ty uses the term ​“objec­tion” or ​“remark” to express its pro­ce­dur­al dis­agree­ment with the pro­ce­dur­al course of a hear­ing, a par­ty may fail to make suf­fi­cient­ly clear that it con­sid­ers its fun­da­men­tal guar­an­tees at stake, accord­ing to the Swiss Fed­er­al Tri­bunal. Based on the Swiss Fed­er­al Tribunal’s deci­sion, it must be con­clud­ed that a hear­ing is not the place for undu­ly polite restraint.