Legal Affairs Committee (LAC) has proposed maintaining the arbitration exception to the Regulation, but with clarifications for the interface between arbitration and the courts. The first reading of the LAC’s…

…right to object in such circumstances. (Similar rules on waiver exist in many institutional rules, including Article 28.1 of the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules, Article 39 of the new ICC…

…ICSID proceedings, the ICSID Arbitration Rules provide a tribunal significant discretion in how proceedings are organized. While denouncing the majority’s decision as “replacing” (para. 219) the ICSID Arbitration Rules, the

…on interim measures and a new codified obligation of confidentiality, the new Ordinance sets a high standard in modern arbitration legislation and has been enthusiastically welcomed by the arbitration community….