TCAS mission statement

To promote and develop in Toronto a world centre for arbitration excellence to resolve international and domestic disputes by providing

• qualified arbitrators,
• exceptional facilities,
• experienced counsel,
• innovative research, and
• a supportive legal environment regardless of the location of the parties or their systems of law.

And to promote the use of arbitration to resolve commercial disputes by

• developing alliances with other arbitral organizations and centres of learning,
• sponsoring international conferences featuring preeminent practitioners as speakers,
• advocating supportive international and domestic legislation, and
• providing a forum and network for the exchange of ideas on all aspects of international and domestic arbitration
• promoting and understanding of available rules and arbitral institutions to facilitate commercial arbitration.