Med-Arb Clauses

Jeremy Gormly (National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council)

May 1, 2012

The quiet child of the legal brood is the transactional lawyer. They are a group that offer hidden wells of future development for mediation. This group of lawyers has extensive and close ongoing…

Claire Wilson (Hong Kong Shue Yan University)

The Arb-Med hybrid in Hong Kong - Much ado about nothing?

February 1, 2012

The recent decision in Gao Hai Yan & Anor v Keeneye Holdings Ltd & Others [2011] HKEC 514, (the “wining and dining” mediation case) has generated a considerable amount of interest in the murky depths…

Nadja Alexander (Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy)

Try as you may, you can’t hide behind the label

November 10, 2011

Hong Kong is the global city of designer ‘labels’ as even the most reluctant of shoppers cannot fail to observe. It is also the city of fakes – fakes with labels and fakes without labels – and the…

Nadja Alexander (Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy)

It’s a Question of Design: BYO Mediation

October 10, 2011

They say that you can take the girl out of Australia but that you can’t take Australia out of the girl. So as an Australian living in Hong Kong, let me leave the east-meets-west stories for another…

Christophe Imhoos (Esprit d’entente)

Mediation and other combined ADR clauses: Still a long way towards true recognition and enforcement by Swiss Courts?

September 7, 2011

On May 16, 2011, the Swiss Supreme Court confirmed a previous ruling on the content and interpretation of a dispute resolution clause that provided for a conciliation attempt prior to resorting to…