Procedural Changes For Panel Emerge As Likely Response To DSB Backlog

Voluntary procedural changes aimed at making dispute settlement panel proceedings in the World Trade Organization more efficient seem to be emerging as the most likely response to the current backlog of cases that have reached the point of delaying the work of panels by months after they are established, according to Geneva sources. The changes at issue were first proposed in a report by then WTO Deputy Director General Alejandro Jara in 2013, they said. They range from the strictly...