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HK Court Relies on Deemed Service Clause to Dismiss a Setting-aside Application to Enforce an Arbitral Award

In CC v AC [2025] HKCFI 855 (Date of Decision: 27 February 2025), the Hong Kong Court of First Instance (“Court”) dismissed an application to set aside an order to enforce an arbitral award. The main basis of challenge...more

Getting the Ball Rolling: Sports Disputes Resolution in Hong Kong SAR

These are exciting times for sports in Hong Kong. With the Hong Kong team’s success at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and Summer Paralympics, the opening of the Kai Tak Sports Park and the 15th National Games (which Hong...more

Government Issues Model Adjudication Documents

On 10 February 2025, the Development Bureau (“DEVB”) issued a suite of model adjudication documents (“Model Documents”), including a set of model adjudication rules (“Model Rules”)....more

HK Security of Payment Ordinance: What Difference Might It Make in Practice?

In Wang & Lee Contracting Ltd v Young Kwong Pui Trading as In Tech Engineering [2025] HKDC 66 (Date of Decision: 3 January 2025), the District Court ordered the court proceedings to be stayed and that the plaintiff’s claims...more

Smart Contracts and the Use of Arbitration to Resolve Related Disputes

In recent years, technology advancement has introduced new methods for contract formation. In particular, the rise of blockchain technology has led to the emergence of “smart contracts”, which are digital contracts which...more

HKIAC Releases Updated 2024 Administered Arbitration Rules

On 1 June 2024, the latest update to the HKIAC’s administered rules, the 2024 Administered Arbitration Rules (“2024 Rules”) of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (“HKIAC”) came into effect....more

Interpretation of Arbitration Clauses: Does “may” arbitrate actually mean you “must” arbitrate? Are “no arbitration until...

Where an arbitration clause provides that parties “may” submit their disputes to arbitration, does this mean that arbitration is mandatory or merely permissive? What is the effect of a proviso in an arbitration clause which...more

Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between the Mainland and Hong Kong: the Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2021

On 24 February 2021, the Hong Kong Government introduced into the Legislative Council the Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2021 (“Bill”), to implement the Supplemental Arrangement Concerning Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards...more

HK - COVID-19: 9 key points on the HK Government’s COVID-19 Online Dispute Resolution Scheme

The Hong Kong Department of Justice has officially launched the COVID-19 Online Dispute Resolution (‘ODR’) Scheme on 29 June 2020. As previously introduced in our article, the Scheme aims to support individuals /...more

Q&A on the HK Government’s COVID-19 Online Dispute Resolution Scheme

Like many other jurisdictions, Hong Kong is taking a proactive approach to dealing with the economic and business consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an article posted on her blog on 13 April 2020, the Secretary for...more

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