A recent decision by the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City (“Court”)—Decision No. 35/2025/QD-PQTT, dated 26 February 2025 (“Decision 35”)—offers important insights into what constitutes a “commercial” dispute under Vietnamese arbitration law. In this case, the Court held that the underlying dispute was non-arbitrable as it was of a civil and not commercial nature,…
On 7-8 June 2019, the ninth (Romanian) National Conference on Commercial Law in Cluj-Napoca was organized by the Department for Company Law and Corporate Governance of the Law Faculty of the University Babeş-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), together with the Center for Commercial Law of the West University of Timişoara (Romania), supported by the Romanian National…
In 2010, the Commercial Court of Paris created a specialised international and European court chamber in order to judge all international complex commercial cases in the first instance. Although French procedural rules continue to apply before this court chamber, evidence and oral debates can take place in a foreign language, if the judges and the…
