The government will have to pay $35 million to the company OAS for breach of contract in the award of the construction of the road from San Ramon to San José.
The payment will be made in March 2014 with funding from the National Concessions Council and the budget allocated to that entity for the coming year, said Roberto Gallardo, Minister of Planning and member of the National Council of Concessions.
While conventional courts take between 4 and 7 years to rule on a case, conciliation and arbitration centers do so in between 8 and 10 months.
The country currently has 15 centers and 17 Justice Houses of a public nature for alternative dispute resolution.
One example is the Alternative Justice Center created by the Lawyer's Association of Costa Rica, in January 2012, which in less than a year has resolved between 28 and 30 processes of conciliation and arbitration. However, it took 8 years to enter into play with other organizations who had already been in operation for over a decade, and are authorized by the State to conciliate and arbitrate conflicts.
An analysis of the bike seat is a good starting point for changing the usual concepts in problem solving.
In his discussion of the theme in an article in Lanacion.com, Alvaro Cedeño uses a credible story about the origin of the thing we have to sit on when using a bicycle.
"... The bicycle seat was a carbon copy of another seat, used in a widespread manner at the time of the invention of the bike, the saddle."
The Lawyers Association of Costa Rica has opened a mediation or arbitration center, which can be used for work, family, commercial or civil conflicts.
Covered by the Law on International Commercial Arbitration May 2011, the Center for Alternative Justice and Lawyers Bar Association of Costa Rica also aims to host international arbitration.
An article in Elfinancerocr.com reported that "The new center joins existing ones in the country, such as those located in the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce, the Federated College of Engineers and Architects and the Costa Rican North American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). "
Key figures for each country: Budget, Expense per capita, Case resolution rate, Transparency, Number of judges and courtrooms and Perception of independence.
A society’s development is heavily based on its ability to peacefully, rapidly and impartially resolve conflicts through its judiciary system. This is why modern societies work hard to have strong and efficient systems, way beyond the rhetoric and formal division of powers.
The agreement includes the acknowledgment on behalf of Alcatel of having bribed Costa Rican public officials.
The fact that the French company acknowledged paying bribes will certainly affect the trial currently underway against several public officials, among them ex President Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.
Alcatel is currently in another legal dispute related to the same topic, but against the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE).
Throughout the region, arbitration and conflict resolution laws recognize and reflect the fundamental principle of "judicial assistance."
Part 2 of the analysis by Álvaro Castellanos Howel in an article published in the blog section of Eleconomista.net insists on the idea that judges should be limited to serve as assistants in the processes of private arbitration.
The region already has rules for arbitration and other alternative methods for conflict resolution that are in line with international standards regarding arbitration.
The analysis of Álvaro Castellanos Howel in the article published in the Eleconomista.com Blogs section focuses on the need for the state judicial system to understand its role in assisting and working with arbitration and dispute resolution systems.