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Isnad · for commercial arbitrationBETA

No party reads the other's memorial before filing its own.

A simultaneous exchange held by the rule rather than by anyone's word or a secretary's vigilance. While a side in the round has not filed and the deadline has not passed, nothing is released to anyone — and the other side is not told whether anything was filed at all. When it is released it becomes readable, not admitted: admission is the tribunal's own separate decision.

Run a round of exchange A case from the start

Beta: the platform runs — the exchange, confidentiality, the tribunal's working papers and translations, on a core that has been running since August. What your centre's own rules require is shaped with them.

The rule we led with

Three readers, one state

A simultaneous round between two sides. Press the buttons in whatever order you like and watch all three columns: what the claimant sees, what the respondent sees, and what the tribunal sees — of the same facts, at the same moment.

Round one — opening memorials

Simultaneous · due 30 September 12:00 · the deadline has not passed

The claimantand whoever acts for it

The respondentand whoever acts for it

The tribunal and its secretaryacting for no side

Try releasing before both sides have filed: the platform refuses, and says why. That is the difference between a rule and a promise.

Prepared data, for this page — the rule governing it is the platform's own.

Confidentiality

What closes, who is named, and what we do not promise

Confidentiality in arbitration is not a flag on a settings screen. It is three different things, and each one's price is written down.

The door

Closed to all but those seated in it

A centre's staff reach the cases under the units they run — except a confidential one, which is reached by the people seated in it by name and nobody else. And lifting confidentiality later does not reopen the door: opening a case to the centre is its own decision, taken on its own.

The mark

Every page carries its reader's name

Name, email and time, on every page displayed. It is a deterrent, and the screen says it is a deterrent: it cannot stop a phone camera, but it names whose screen it was. Anyone calling that protection is selling reassurance rather than a property.

Working papers

Deliberations no party can open

The tribunal's deliberations and its draft award are filed private: never in the bundle, never numbered, never exported, never returned by search to anyone. And the «open to the parties» button refuses them — it is not enough that nobody does it; it has to be impossible.

Plainly

«Confidential» is not «encrypted»

Files are not encrypted at rest today. What protects the papers is that the server is yours and inside your network, and that the log records who read and who tried and was refused. Said here rather than discovered in a security review.

Two languages

A translation is filed material, not a column beside a column

The file is in Arabic and the pleadings in English, or the other way round. A citation has to point at what was actually filed, so here a translation is a document with its own pages and its own numbers, and it says which original it renders.

One translation per language per original — a better one replaces the link. Two English versions of the same document is the usual road to citing the wrong one.
And no translation of a translation — every rendering hangs from something that was filed, never from another rendering.
And the procedural languages govern — where the case declares them, no link may leave them.
And «the same page in the other language» is offered as approximate — translations rarely paginate one for one, and the screen says so instead of claiming a match that does not exist.
And the tribunal gets a report of what is missing — originals with no translation into a procedural language, and documents with no language set, kept apart from each other.

A case from the start

From constituting the tribunal to a bundle handed over with its fingerprint

The order is the same at a centre and in an ad hoc arbitration; what changes is your own rules, and the words on the screen follow them.

The centre · the secretariat
The file opens, and the tribunal is constituted by seats

Presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrators, secretary, expert and each side's counsel — capacities with genuinely different powers, not names on a list. And people come in by a named invitation: an arbitration is not entered through an open code.
Carries forward: who reads, who files, and who decides
The sides
Who acts for whom — openly

The tribunal sets each counsel's and expert's side. Representation is not a secret in arbitration, so everyone sees it — which is what makes the exchange rule applicable at all. The tribunal and its secretary act for nobody.
Carries forward: rounds addressed to sides, not to individuals
The memorials
A simultaneous round, or a sequential step

A round is a deadline for one side or for both. Each one opens an ordinary filing request per side — so lateness, the hand-in and the roster work exactly as they do everywhere else in the platform. After the deadline a filing is refused rather than quietly accepted.
Carries forward: filings dated by the moment the file arrived
Release
Readable, not admitted

Once everyone has filed or the deadline has passed, the tribunal releases the round and the memorials become readable by the room. Admission to the bundle is a separate decision that stays the tribunal's — and anything filed after the release is put before it as late, and is not released with the round.
Carries forward: what both sides read, and when it became readable
The bundle and the hearing
Numbering published once, and one page in front of the room

What is admitted enters the bundle and takes a number that does not move afterwards — anything inserted later takes a suffix (12.1). In the hearing one page is in front of everyone, the floor is handed over by name, and attendance is derived from a log nobody can edit.
Carries forward: a citation still true after the award
Handing it over
One stamped file, with its fingerprint

The bundle is exported as a single file, every page stamped with its published number, and with a fingerprint by which the recipient can prove they hold the copy that was produced. And nothing is exported from a bundle with no published numbering — which is what all of this exists to keep out of a hearing room.
And that is the point: a file that proves it is itself

Who this is for

A centre running a hundred cases, or an arbitrator running one

One build; what changes is whose rules govern.

The arbitration centre

Cases under one secretariat

Units under the centre, a secretariat that sees what it administers, and a confidential case that closes its door even to the administration. And an access log nobody can edit answers the question asked two years later: who read this file?

The law firm

Counsel who file, and see no more than their due

Counsel file for their side, read what has been released, and cannot replace a document the tribunal filed nor the other side's memorial — a hole that was closed in the core itself, not by a setting on a screen.

The arbitrator

Somewhere for the deliberation

Drafts and notes are filed as working papers: outside the bundle, the numbering, the search and the export. On a three-member tribunal, it is where they exchange what is not the parties' business.

In-house legal

A party to an arbitration it does not run

They see their own case as it stands, read what was released when it was released, and know what was admitted and what was not — without a weekly call to counsel asking what came in.

Where we drew the line

What we chose not to be

Every line here is a choice with a reason behind it, and some of it belongs to your centre alone, so it is shaped with it.

No encryption of files at rest yet — and «confidential» on a screen does not mean «encrypted» anywhere in this platform.
And no watermark on the exported file — deliberately: the official bundle is one copy with one fingerprint, and a copy per reader would make that fingerprint mean nothing.
And search folds Arabic only — English is matched as typed. A bilingual file is searched cleverly in one half and literally in the other.
And no award drafting, no templates and no automatic summaries — nor any intention of them: a model that summarises a deliberation means the deliberation left your network.
And no certified electronic signature on the award — an award is filed as ordinary material with its fingerprint; certified signing stays outside the platform.
And deadlines sit on rounds and requests — where the deadline actually falls. A timetable for the whole case follows your centre's own rules and their dates, so it is drawn with them rather than before them.
And no fees or accounting — no intention either; that is your centre's financial system, not an evidence environment.

Where we stand

A working core, and a thin layer on it

Arbitration adds the least of the four markets to the core — which is a strength, not a gap: most of what it needs is what every case needs, and the rest is three things that worked from the first day.

What the platform stands on

Sides: who acts for whom, openly to everyone in the case
Simultaneous or sequential rounds, with deadlines and filing requests
The release rule: nothing before the deadline while a side has not filed
And until release the other side is told nothing — not even the title
What is filed after a release is put before the tribunal as late, and not released with it
A confidential case closes its door to the centre, and lifting it does not reopen it
The reader's name on every page, described as a deterrent
The tribunal's working papers: outside the bundle, numbering, search and export
A translation as filed material, one per language, with no chains
A report of originals missing a translation into a procedural language
And under all of it the core: published numbering, Arabic search, the live hearing, the access log and the stamped export

And what is shaped with your institution

A case timetable as your centre's rules draw it
Your centre's rules and procedures ready when a file is opened
A handover pack for the court on challenge or enforcement
Single sign-on and two-factor authentication
English search as clever as the Arabic
And what you see that we do not

Let us start from your rules

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