Baker McKenzie’s Arbitration Yearbook 2018-2019 Edition
Click here for the chapter on China in the 2018-2019 Arbitration Yearbook.
Arbitration News from China
Hong Kong and Mainland China enhance law on mutual enforcement of arbitral awards
Since 1 February 2000, enforcement of arbitral awards between the Mainland and Hong Kong has been governed by a separate Arrangement, which has successfully...
Arbitration in Asia- an arbitration handbook for Russian in-house counsels
We are happy to present to you Arbitration in Asia, an arbitration handbook for Russian in-house counsels, co-authored by Jay Patrick R. Santiago, a...
Baker McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook 2020-2021 – China
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...
Shanghai court holds that arbitration agreement providing for arbitration administered by SIAC in Shanghai...
Introduction
In December 2019, the Singapore Court of Appeal ("SGCA") in BNA v BNB ruled on the interpretation of an arbitration agreement that provided...
Singapore Court of Appeal rules that “arbitration in Shanghai” naturally refers to arbitral seat
The Singapore Court of Appeal recently reversed the ruling of the Singapore High Court in BNA v BNB and Another ( SGCA 84). It found...
Baker McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook 2019-2020 – China
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...
Landmark arrangement on interim relief protection in China for Hong Kong arbitrations to take...
On 1 October 2019, the landmark arrangement between the Hong Kong Government and China's Supreme People's Court on interim measures in aid of arbitrations...
Singapore Court determines proper law of arbitration clause
In its recent decision in BNA v BNB and another SGHC 142, the Singapore High Court had to determine the law governing an...
First Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings in China and Enforcement in Hong Kong
In August 2018, the Beijing Arbitration Commission ("BAC") closed its first arbitration case involving emergency arbitration procedures in China ("GKML Case"). This case, with...
SPC Launches International Commercial Courts in Shenzhen and Xi’an
Following its earlier announcements, the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) has formally launched two branches in Shenzhen and Xi’an on 29 June 2018,...
