INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC ARBITRATION IN SWITZERLAND

Contents XXI 2. Anticipated assessment of evidence ...................................................500 3. Adverse inference...............................................................................500 4. No judicial review of the assessment of evidence ..............................501 VIII. Judicial assistance by state courts .............................................................501 1. Assistance for arbitral tribunals seated in Switzerland .......................501 a. Jurisdiction ...................................................................................502 b. Applicable law and other forms of procedure ..............................503 c. Scope and forms of assistance......................................................503 2. Assistance for arbitral tribunals seated abroad ...................................505 § 21 Decision on the merits........................................................................................507 I. Concept of decision on the merits.............................................................507 II. Decision in accordance with the law.........................................................508 1. Prevailing concept ..............................................................................508 2. Development in Switzerland...............................................................509 3. Law or rules of law? ...........................................................................511 4. Rules of law chosen by the parties......................................................512 a. The choice of law agreement........................................................513 b. Subject of the choice of law .........................................................514 i. Direct or indirect choice of law.............................................514 ii. Negative choice of law..........................................................515 iii. Choice of “no law” ...............................................................515 iv. Choice of international law, transnational rules, etc. ............515 v. Freezing clause .....................................................................516 vi. Floating clause ......................................................................516 vii. Tronc commun ......................................................................516 viii. Dépeçage ..............................................................................517 c. Scope of the choice of law............................................................517 d. Limits of party autonomy .............................................................519 5. The rules of law determined by the arbitral tribunal...........................519 a. Autonomy of the arbitral tribunal.................................................519 b. Determination of the closest connection.......................................520 c. Scope of the determination by the arbitral tribunal ......................523 6. Mandatory rules (positive public policy)............................................523 a. Mandatory rules of the lex causae ................................................524 b. “Foreign” mandatory rules ...........................................................524 7. Public international law ......................................................................528 8. Jura novit curia (and arbiter ) .............................................................528 III. Decision ex aequo et bono ........................................................................530 1. Concept and scope of application .......................................................530 a. Introduction ..................................................................................530 b. Decision ex aequo et bono and public policy ...............................532