“I don’t like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup”
-Jejomar Binay (former mayor of Makati)
In the early hours on Thursday, 11 April 2019, one imagines the…
January 2020
In Dickson Valora Group (Holdings) Co Ltd and another v Fan Ji Qian [2019] CFI 482, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance granted an anti-suit injunction restraining a non-party to a contract from…
April 2019
“The trap had a ghastly perfection”
- Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Introduction
China’s economic power has surpassed market expectations in the past decades. The World Bank shows China’s GDP…
January 2019
“We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs.”
– Donald J. Trump
The Trump administration has marked the…
August 2018
I. Introduction: Criticisms
Since the commencement of the Trump administration, the world has witnessed a surge in criticism of investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms. Critics describe the…
June 2018
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own laws. – Vladimir Lenin
Those who have knowledge, do not predict. Those who predict, do not have…
March 2018
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin
* The article traces a public lecture held in Hong Kong on 12 July 2017,…
October 2017
In recent years, international arbitration has emerged as a high-growth area for the litigation funding industry. All the major funders now have international arbitration cases in their portfolios,…
September 2016
On 4 October 2015, it was announced that negotiations for Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (“TPP”) have been concluded. The TPP is now in a ratification pattern, the outcome of which is by no…
May 2016
“This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The number of disputes in music and entertainment arising from agreements between musicians and their managers…
May 2016
