Simon Chapman
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
Hong Kong court dismisses application for further stay of enforcement
Hong Kong - January 14 2019 After reluctantly issuing an initial stay of enforcement in July 2018, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance recently dismissed an application by...
Kathryn Sanger, May Tai, Briana Young.
Hong Kong Court of Appeal ends 12-year Xiamen v Eton Properties saga
Hong Kong - January 8 2019 As discussed in this post, Xiamen Xingjingdi Group Co Ltd (XJ) and various co-defendants affiliated with Eton Properties Ltd (together, EP) have been...
Kathryn Sanger, Briana Young, Dominic Geiser.
Hong Kong’s Funding Code Published
Hong Kong - December 11 2018 As noted in our earlier post, Hong Kong published its long-awaited Code of Practice for Third Party Funding of Arbitration on 7 December 2018...
Kathryn Sanger, May Tai, Briana Young.
Set-aside not a Backdoor to Appeal: Hong Kong Court
Hong Kong - December 6 2018 In N v W 2018 HKCFI 2405, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance refused to remit or set aside an award on the basis that an arbitrator had...
Back whence it came: Hong Kong Court remits Award for serious irregularity
Hong Kong - November 6 2018 A tribunal had decided liability and awarded sums as due on a basis not advanced by the claimant. In P v M 2018 HKCFI 2280, The Hong Kong Court of...
Tomas Furlong, Kathryn Sanger, Briana Young.
