THE ELECTRONIC COURTHOUSE

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• THE ELECTRONIC COURTHOUSE

Fast Affordable Dispute Resolution
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AGENDA 1. Commercial Disputes - The
Construction Sector 2. Litigation the
Alternatives - The Migration to ADR 3.
The Electronic Courthouse

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  Teri Kirk President, The Electronic
Courthouse

• LL.B. Osgoode Hall / MA Queens
• VP, BCE (Bell, Nexxia)
• Queens School of Business
• Ont. Centre for Science Tech.

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1. Commercial Disputes -The Construction
Sector

Industry as a Whole 50B/ year

• Construction Sector 7.5B / year
• Issue 60 are Breach of Contract.
• Amount 86 are lt 150,000
• Time 600 days
• Cost 2 parties amount in dispute
  
  

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2. Alternatives to Litigation - The Migration
to ADR
The construction sector was one of the earliest
adopters of ADR... Demand has grown in response
to the fast-paced and increasingly global nature
of our econoomy.
ICC, 2002

ADR 5B / year. 35 year-over-year.
We think that national court systems are too
expensive, too time consuming, and judgments..
hard to enforce. A global alternative dispute
resolution (ADR) system is necessary to
encourage. commerce. GBDe, May 2000
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www.ElectronicCourthouse.com

• Comprehensive Set of tools
• 8-Step Process
• Expert international rosters
• Access from the Desktop
• Free Model ADR clauses
• Multilingual
• Corporate/ Credit Reports
• Law Library
• Fixed Product, Price, Time Tracks

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Rosters
Walter Seaton P. Eng., 40 years. Chair,
Construction Section, ADR Inst. of Canada. 50
ADR proceedings. Publications on ADR in
engineering/ construction disputes.

David McCutcheon Co-Chair, National Advocacy
Practice, FMC. Co-Founder, ADR Alliance of
Canada.
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Triple A Customer Value Proposition
Affordable 95 less costly.
COST OF SETTLING DISPUTES
60,000
50,700 Litigation
40,000
2500 Electronic Courthouse
20,000
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Accessible 99 faster.
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72 hours vs. 600 days
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Applicable!

• Confidential
• Higher compliance rates
• Borderless

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Use The Electronic Courthouse at each stage of
the Contract Continuum

• Formation
• Problem
• Negotiations
• Solutions
• Evaluation
• Facilitation
• Drafting

• In Place
• Problem
• Interpretation
• Solutions
• Interpretation
• Evaluation
• Facilitation
• Drafting

• Termination
• Problem
• Litigation
• Solutions
• Mediation
• Arbitration
• Med - Arb
• Evaluation

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• Pricing Pilot

• Walk-in Service 2500 US per party per
  dispute
• Subscribers Subscriber rate.
• Associations Preferred Member Rate
• National Pilot Associations Industry
  Leaders
• Federal
  Government McMaster U.
• 1 Year Pilot
  - 10 cases
• 1st Case
  fully rebated. ACSI Report