A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation A.1.1 Proposed Amendment to PRC Arbitration Law On 30 July 2021, China’s Ministry of Justice published the proposed amendments to the current PRC Arbitration Law for public consultation. The draft amendment represents a major overhaul of the current arbitration regime that was introduced 26 years ago, with the primary aims of bringing the PRC arbitration law more into line with international best practices and making China a more attractive…
Since 1 February 2000, enforcement of arbitral awards between the Mainland and Hong Kong has been governed by…
We are happy to present to you Arbitration in Asia, an arbitration handbook for Russian in-house counsels, co-authored…
CHINA Simon Hui, Zhengwei Yang and Hailin Cui A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation A.1.1 Opening to foreign arbitration institution On 28 August 2020, the State Council issued the “Plan for Deepening the Comprehensive Pilot Program of a New Round of Expanding Opening-up of the Service Sector in Beijing Municipality and Building a National Comprehensive Demonstration Zone for Expanding Opening-up of the Service Sector”. The plan, among others, allows well-known overseas arbitration institutions to set…
Introduction[1] In December 2019, the Singapore Court of Appeal (“SGCA”) in BNA v BNB ruled on the interpretation…
The Singapore Court of Appeal recently reversed the ruling of the Singapore High Court in BNA v BNB and…
CHINA Haifeng Li and Hailin Cui A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation Lingang Area of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone opens up to foreign arbitration institution On 8 November 2019, the Shanghai Bureau of Justice released the Administrative Measures for Business Offices Established by Overseas Arbitration Institutions in the Lin-gang Special Area (Lin-gang FTZ) of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (Administrative Measures), which came into force on 1 January 2020. The Administrative Measures…
On 1 October 2019, the landmark arrangement between the Hong Kong Government and China’s Supreme People’s Court on…
In its recent decision in BNA v BNB and another [2019] SGHC 142, the Singapore High Court had…
In August 2018, the Beijing Arbitration Commission (“BAC”) closed its first arbitration case involving emergency arbitration procedures in China (“GKML Case”). This case, with the claimants represented by Baker McKenzie Fenxun, is significant in that it not only featured the first emergency arbitrator proceeding (“EA proceedings”) in China but also the enforcement of the emergency arbitrator order (“EA Order”) in Hong Kong, and therefore has set a precedent and example for future practices of similar…