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Practice of International Commercial Arbitration: A Handbook for Hong Kong Arbitrators

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Index

Index

  • AAA 34
  • adjudication 33–4, 36, 39, 159–61
  • ADR initiatives 31–4
  • ADR support 154–61
  • agreement in writing 79
  • applications for further and better particulars 105–6
  • applications for interrogatories 105–6
  • applications for preliminary issues 105
  • applications to preserve property or conduct experiments 106–7
  • appointment of arbitrators
    • Arbitration Ordinance, under 60–3
    • breaking deadlock 61–2
    • chairperson 60
    • challenge 62
    • conflicts of interest 63–70
    • see also conflicts of interest
    • impartiality and independence, duty of 70–2
    • Model Law, under 60–3
    • more than two parties 62
    • number of 61
    • party autonomy, and 61
    • qualifications 62
    • termination, and 63
    • tribunal’s ruling on own competence 62
  • arbitral judicial order 23–5
  • arbitral rules
    • discretion of tribunal 18
  • arbitration
    • ad hoc 3
    • administered 2–3
    • meaning 2
  • arbitration agreement 2
    • challenge to tribunal’s jurisdiction 79–80
    • non-commercial contexts, in 6
    • who is bound by 24
  • arbitration–friendly financial centres 22
  • Arbitration Ordinance 1, 27–8
  • arbitration rules
    • sameness 59
  • arbitrations involving mainly private interests 187–93
  • arbitrations involving private and public interests 193–6
  • avoidance of legal systems of national courts 10–11
  • award 141–50
    • applications to set aside 171–4
    • background 147
    • discussion 147
    • drafting 144–50
    • formal 144
    • interest 148–50
    • interim 142–3
    • introduction 147
    • irrelevant matters 146
    • issues 148
    • judge becoming functus 143–4
    • meaning 142
    • merger, doctrine of 143
    • partial 142–3
    • preliminary matters 141–4
    • professional responsibility, and 146
    • reasons for 145
    • recognition or enforcement 146
    • statutory lien, and 143
    • structure 147
    • sub–issues 148
    • substance 145
    • terminology 141–2
  • BAC 38
  • barristers
    • conflict of interest 64–7
  • Belt and Road Initiative 206–7
  • BIAC 38
  • capacity–building among jurisdictions 203–4
  • capacity–building among young arbitrators 204–6
  • case management 85–9
    • balancing act, as 86
    • enforceable award 85
    • failure to comply with order 87
    • notice of proceedings 86–7
    • time to comply with direction 88
  • challenges 198–207
  • China see mainland China infrastructure
  • choice of arbitrator 8–9
  • choice of law 78–85
    • Article 7 of Model Law 78
    • convenience 82
    • Hague Principles 81
    • law of seat of arbitration 80
    • lex mercatoria 84
    • non–national body of law 82
    • party autonomy 81
    • “rules of law” 83
  • CIArb East Asia 29
  • CIArb Singapore Branch 34
  • CIETAC 37
  • CIETAC arbitration rules 50–3
    • appointment of tribunal 50–1
    • award 53
    • conduct of proceedings 51–2
    • pleadings 51
  • CIETAC Hong Kong 28–9
  • class arbitrations 183–6
  • CMAC 38
  • commercial
    • meaning 5
  • competition law arbitrations 195–6

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    complex arbitrations 177–86
  • concordance of Model Law articles and Arbitration Ordinance sections 40–1
  • confidentiality 9–10
  • conflicts of interest 63–70
    • actual and apparent bias 66–8
    • challenge 68
    • duty of disclosure 70
    • Green List 67
    • Orange List 66–7
    • qualifications 63–4
    • Red List 66
    • repeated appointments 68–9
    • solicitors and barristers 64–7
  • consolidation 181–3
  • construction arbitrations 190–1
  • cost 11–12
  • costs of arbitration 150–2
    • bill of costs 152
    • following the event 151
    • party–and–party basis 151–2
    • provisional order 150
    • submissions 151
  • costs of international commercial arbitration
    • challenges 201–3
  • costs of the tribunal 152–3
  • cross–examination 130, 134–40
    • contradictory evidence 138–9
    • demeanour of witness 136
    • falsity, accusation of 137
    • fraud, allegations of 140
    • irrelevant matters 136
    • managing 134–140
    • protracted argument 139
    • shortening time for 135
    • Socratic dialogue 139
    • testing evidence 136
    • wasted time 134
  • direct submissions from advocates 20–21
  • documentary evidence 108–15
    • document, meaning 109
    • functions 113
    • general and specific discovery 108–10
    • practical considerations 113–15
    • Redfern Schedule 111
    • relevance 108–9
    • requests for disclosure 114–15
    • resisting disclosure 115
  • due process paranoia 11–12
  • emergency arbitrator 98–9
  • evidence 108–24
    • documentary see documentary evidence
    • IBA Rules 110–12
  • expert witnesses 118–24
    • agreement as to 119
    • appointment by tribunal 120
    • CIArb Protocol 121–2
    • directions 118–19, 120
    • foreign law 120
    • guidelines 121
    • hot–tubbing 122
    • sample order for directions 123–4
  • financial arbitrations 191–3
  • foreign law
    • duty to apply 19
    • expert evidence 20
    • matter of fact, as 19
  • freezing orders 96–101
    • convention into Hong Kong order 96–7
    • ex parte 97
    • factors 100–1
    • risk of dissipation, and 99
    • security 97
  • Green List 67
  • Hague Choice of Court Agreements Convention 10
  • HKIAC 28–9
  • HKIAC administered arbitration rules 42–7
    • appointment of tribunal 43
    • award 46–7
    • conduct of proceedings 44–6
    • pleadings 44
  • HKIArb 29
  • Hong Kong infrastructure 27–34
    • adjudication 33–4
    • ADR initiative 31–4
    • Advisory Committee on Promotion of Arbitration 29–30
    • Department of Justice 29
    • government support 29–30
    • judicial support 30
    • Law Reform Commission 30
    • legislation 27–8
    • med–Arb 31–3
    • mediation 31
    • organizations 28–9
  • ICC 34
  • ICC Arbitration Rules 56–8
    • appointment of tribunal 56
    • award 58
    • conduct of proceedings 57–8
    • pleadings 57
  • ICC Hong Kong 28
  • ICDR – Singapore 34
  • impartiality and independence, duty of 70–2
    • empirical bases, and 71
  • infrastructure 27–41
    • mainland China see mainland China infrastructure
    • Singapore see Singapore infrastructure
  • intellectual property arbitrations 193–4
  • interest
  • interim measures 93–107
    • American Cyanamid test 100
    • balancing exercise 99–100
    • emergency arbitrator 98–9
    • full and frank disclosure 98
    • powers 93–6
    • preliminary order 98
    • section 56, Arbitration Ordinance 94–5
  • interlocutory matters 93–107
  • international arbitration
    • definition 3, 4
  • investment treaty arbitrations 6, 196–7
  • investor–state arbitration 6
  • joinder 179–81
  • joinder of parties 24–5
  • judicial support 162–76
    • applications for recognition and enforcement of awards 174–5
    • applications to set side award 171–4
    • Astro Nusantara case 162–3
    • exercise of powers 167–75
    • good faith 164
    • interlocutory orders in aid of arbitration 169–71
    • jurisdictional challenges 167–9
    • powers 163–7
    • public interest 163
    • specific power 165–7
    • weak waiver 165
  • law of seat as source of validity 16–21
    • criticisms of theory 17
  • laws of enforcing states as source of validity 21–3
    • Geneva Convention 21–2
    • New York

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      Convention 22
    • recognition and enforcement of awards 21–3
  • lex mercatoria 84
  • mainland China infrastructure 37–9
    • adjudication 39
    • ADR initiatives 38–9
    • government support 38
    • judicial support 38
    • legislation 37
    • Med–arb 39
    • mediation 38–9
    • organizations 37–8
  • Mareva injunctions 96–101
  • maritime arbitration 187–90
  • Med–arb 31–3, 36, 39, 157–8
    • disadvantages 157–8
    • safeguards 158
  • mediation 31, 36, 38–9, 154–7
    • advantages 155
    • Apology Ordinance 157
    • definition 154
    • evaluative 156
    • facilitative 156
    • narrative 156
    • styles 156
    • success of 157
    • transformative 156
  • MINLAW 35
  • Model Law 5, 13–14
    • concordance of articles with Arbitration Ordinance sections 40–41
    • harmonisation of regulatory framework, and 17
  • most closely connected
    • meaning 4
  • multi–contract arbitrations 177–86
  • multi–party arbitrations 177–86
  • New York Convention 5–6, 14–15
  • Orange List 66–7
  • order for directions no.1 73–8
    • challenge to jurisdiction, and 77
    • comprehensive order 76
    • detailed timetable 77
    • initial order 74–5
    • time to submit defence 77–8
  • party autonomy 25
  • PCA 29, 34
  • place
    • meaning 3
  • pleadings 74–6
    • importance of 76
    • real issues 76
    • second round of 75
  • popularity 7–11
    • statistics 7–8
  • procedure 73–8
  • Redfern Schedule 111
  • Red List 66
  • rules 42–59
  • SAC 38
  • sample comprehensive order for directions no.1 90–2
    • documentary evidence 90–1
    • expert reports 91–2
    • factual without evidence 91
    • hearing 92
    • pleadings 90
  • SCIA 37
  • seat of arbitration 3–4
  • security for costs 101–5
    • amount 102–3
    • claim and counterclaim, and 103–4
    • principles 101–2
    • respondent, order against 103
    • sanction if not provided 103
    • serious risks, and 102
  • SHIAC 37
  • SIAC 34
    • arbitration rules 47–50
    • appointment of tribunal 47–8
    • award 49–50
    • conduct of proceedings 48–9
    • pleadings 48
  • SIArb 34
  • SICC 198–200
  • Singapore infrastructure 34–6
    • adjudication 36
    • ADR initiatives 36
    • government support 35
    • judicial support 35
    • legislation 34
    • Med–arb 36
    • mediation 36
    • MINLAW 35
    • organizations 34
  • specialized arbitrations 187–97
  • specialized commercial arbitrations 187–96
  • start of arbitrations 73–89
  • state
    • meaning 3
  • substantive hearing 125–31
    • adjournment 128–9
    • cards on the table approach 129
    • chess clock procedure 127–8
    • closing submissions 130–1
    • cross–examination 130
    • directions 127
    • document alone 125, 126
    • examination in chief 129–30
    • interlocutory applications 128
    • oral 126–7
    • oral opening submissions 129
    • time for 127
    • written closing submissions 125–6
  • terminology 2–7
  • third party funding 183–6
  • transnational law as source of validity 23–5
    • Model Law 25
  • trial 125–40
    • maintaining level playing field 131–4
    • sanctions for misconduct 133
  • UNCITRAL 13–14
  • UNCITRAL arbitration rules 53–6
    • appointment of tribunal 54
    • award 55–6
    • conduct of proceedings 55
    • pleadings 54–5
  • WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre 34
  • witnesses 115–22

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