This publication is clearly designed for use by those who are considering or are involved in Arbitration in Hong Kong. The law of arbitration in Hong Kong is based on English law and many of the provisions of the Ordinances directly replicate provisions of the various Arbitration Acts prior to the Arbitration Act 1996. (There is only one Arbitration Ordinance, originally enacted in 1963, but extensively amended thereafter.) However, in certain important respects Hong Kong legislation differs from that of England, most notably in the adoption of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration through the Arbitration (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance (No. 64 of 1989). Given the extensive borrowing from the Model Law in the Arbitration Act 1996, readers with no particular interest in Hong Kong arbitration might yet read the annotation of this particular aspect of the Ordinance with profit.

To state blandly that the work sets out the various provisions of the Ordinance together with annotations thereof does not begin to do justice to the industry and scholarship of the annotator. Each provision is accompanied by an extremely extensive annotation, often running to several pages. These annotations make extensive reference to the provisions of other Hong Kong