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Jun 24, 2024 | lexology.com | Lianjun Li |Matthew Townsend |Patrick Chong

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Jul 21, 2023 | lexology.com | Lianjun Li |Matt Townsend |Patrick Chong

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Apr 17, 2023 | lexology.com | Lianjun Li |Donald Sham |Matt Townsend |Patrick Chong |Eric Xu |Stacy Lee

On 15 March 2023, the Court of First Instance in CMB v. Fund & others [2023] HKCFI 760 set aside the impugned parts of an arbitral award (Award) on the ground that there was no dispute between the parties to the arbitration agreement that could confer jurisdiction on the arbitrator. BackgroundArbitration requires party consent. Parties usually do so by entering into an agreement to refer to arbitration any dispute arising “out of or in relation to” their wider contract(s).