Originally from Soft Law in International Arbitration, Second Edition

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III.  THE GUIDANCE

1     Guidance 1    Code of Professional and Ethical Conduct
       1.1     Code relating to the conduct of members when serving on committees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, acting for the Institute or making appointments as honorary officers of the Institute. 
       1.2     Code relating to the conduct of members when acting or seeking to act as neutrals.

1.   Code of professional and ethical conduct

       Introduction
A    This Code of Professional and Ethical Conduct is published pursuant to the Bye-Laws of the Institute so that members may be reminded of the professional and moral principles which  should at all times govern their conduct.

B    The Oxford English Dictionary defines 'ethics', as moral principles or rules of conduct. A Code of Ethics provides a set of moral principles according to which one should conduct one's affairs.  The Code sets out, in a number of Rules, the minimum standards of conduct that members should observe. A significant breach of the Code amounts to professional misconduct by virtue of  Bye-Law 15.2.  

C    The Code is in two parts but members should be cognisant of the entire code and should apply the principles, in whole or in part, as applicable to their dispute resolution practice.

D    The first part of the Code relates to the conduct of members, including honorary officers in the carrying out of the functions, duties and responsibilities of the Institute.  It governs the  conduct of members when acting as members of the Board of Trustees, the Board of Management, or any committee of the Institute and applies also to the conduct of honorary officers of the Institute when appointing arbitrators, adjudicators, mediators and others to act as neutrals in alternative dispute resolution processes.

E    The second part of the Code relates to the conduct of members when acting or seeking to act as neutrals in alternative dispute resolution processes, wherever conducted,  whether or  not  they have been appointed so to act by Institute or any officer of the Institute and whether or not the process is conducted under the auspices of the Institute.