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1 month ago | 
pinsentmasons.com | Karah Howard |Mohammed Talib |Alasdair Weir |Aleesha Way
The scheme allows short-term entry into Hong Kong SAR for people participating in arbitral proceedings in the jurisdiction, including arbitrators, expert and factual witnesses, legal representatives or parties involved in arbitration.
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2 months ago | 
pinsentmasons.com | Karah Howard |Mohammed Talib |Aleesha Way |Alexis Coleman
The Hong Kong Court of First Instance issued two injunctions in an ongoing arbitration being resolved by the US-based International Centre for Dispute Resolution, firstly ordering one company, referred to in the ruling as 'company C', to restrain from transferring assets to a subsidiary; and secondly restraining company C from disposing of assets up to $55 million, the amount its opponent, referred to as 'company A', was claiming in the proceedings.
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2 months ago | 
pinsentmasons.com | Mohammed Talib |Scheherazade Dubash |Aleesha Way |Andrew Mitchell
India is at an inflection point, moving towards becoming a hub for international and institutional arbitration. Efforts to strengthen the arbitration ecosystem, legislative amendments, and the establishment of dedicated arbitration centres and membership organisations are driving this shift. The Indian government recently completed a consultation on a bill featuring proposed amendments to the Indian Arbitration Act.
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2 months ago | 
pinsentmasons.com | Mohammed Talib |Scheherazade Dubash |Aleesha Way |Alexis Coleman
Data (31-page / 14.5MB PDF) from the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA) showed an increase of its caseload from 23 cases in 2023 to 34 in 2024, with the total value of cases reaching $257 million and an average value of $11.4m. International arbitration expert Mohammed Talib of Pinsent Masons said: “The release of MCIA’s 2024 Annual Report revealed a 48% increase in new cases and underscores the growing use of institutional arbitration in India”.
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2 months ago | 
pinsentmasons.com | Karah Howard |Mohammed Talib |Aleesha Way |Alexis Coleman
The Practice Note on Compatibility of Arbitration Clauses under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules (7-page / 288KB PDF) was released on 20 January, marking the first time an institution has released a practice note specifically on the compatibility of arbitration clauses.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
dzone.com | Mohammed Talib
In this blog post, we’ll explore: Problems with traditional LLMs What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)? How RAG works Real-world implementations of RAGProblems With Traditional LLMsWhile LLMS have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, they come with some significant limitations:LLMs sometimes hallucinate, meaning they provide factually incorrect answers.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Mohammed Talib |Scheherazade Dubash |Alasdair Weir |Aleesha Way
The proposed amendments come at a time when various Indian initiatives are being undertaken by arbitration stakeholders to enhance the country’s dispute resolution environment. The amendments aim to promote ease of doing business in India, helping to establish the country as a robust and reliable arbitration forum and prevent the further ‘exporting’ of arbitrations to countries like Singapore, which currently hosts a significant number of disputes involving Indian parties.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Alvin Ho |Mohammed Talib |Alasdair Weir |Aleesha Way
The latest policy address by Hong Kong SAR’s chief executive includes key developments set to impact Hong Kong SAR’s construction industry. Among the developments announced are changes to legislation to improve building safety and management, with proposed amendments to the Buildings Ordinance expected before the end of the year. An amendment bill to further improve building safety is also expected to be introduced in the first half of 2026 after public consultation.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Mohammed Talib |Rachel Turner |Alasdair Weir |Aleesha Way
The Supreme People's Court of China’s 2023 Annual Report on Judicial Review of Commercial Arbitration revealed the people’s courts at all levels across China concluded more than 16,000 commercial arbitration judicial review cases throughout the year, which was a year-on-year increase of 5%. Although there were over 10,600 applications for arbitral awards to be revoked, only 552 arbitral awards were revoked by the people’s courts at all levels. The courts also enforced 69 overseas arbitral awards.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Mohammed Talib |Alastair Dale |Aleesha Way |Alexis Coleman
Certain NEC ‘optional clauses’ provide a way for incentive mechanisms to be embedded into the contract. For example, Option X20 can be used to apply incentives to maximise performance on the project via the inclusion of key performance indicators (KPIs), and Option X29 – intended to reward ‘green’ construction practices - can be used to drive better project performance and outcomes.
