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Recent developments The Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong (“LRC”) published a report on 12 October 2016 (“Report”) in which it recommends amendments to the Arbitration Ordinance (Cap. 609) (“AO”) to expressly permit third party funding (“TPF”) for arbitrations and other proceedings under the AO, provided that appropriate financial and ethical safeguards are put in place. The Report sets out the LRC’s final recommendations on TPF and related matters, including draft provisions to amend the AO.…

Editor’s note: This article was first published in October 2015. Since then, the consultation period during which comments could be submitted to the Sub‑committee was extended to 1 February 2016. The Sub-committee has not yet published its final recommendations. It is expected that it will do so soon and that draft legislation will be submitted to Hong Kong’s Legislative Council any time after the Legislative Council election on 4 September 2016. Recent developments The Law…

Recent Developments The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (“HKIAC”) and the ICC International Court of Arbitration (“ICC”), two of the world’s leading arbitral centres, have recently taken steps to address the problem of costs and delay in international arbitration. As outlined in the 2015 International Arbitration Survey on Improvements and Innovations in International Arbitration by Queen Mary University of London (“2015 Survey”), costs and delay were “ranked by respondents as amongst the worst characteristics of…

The costs of international arbitration can be substantial. At the same time, an arbitral tribunal has a broad discretion regarding the question: Which party has to bear the costs of the arbitration? Against this background, the ICC Commission’s Task Force of Decisions as to Costs has reviewed hundreds of arbitral awards and has analysed in what manner arbitral tribunals exercise their discretion. The results were compiled in the ICC Commission Report “Decisions on Costs in…