ICCA 2024 Hong Kong Reading List

Michael J. Moser and Robert Morgan, 'National Report for Hong Kong (2021 through 2023)', in Lise Bosman (ed), ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration (ICCA & Kluwer Law International 2023, Supplement No. 125, February 2023)

Supreme Court of Hong Kong, High Court, 12 September 1986 (Shui On Construction Co. Ltd. v. Moo Yik Co. Ltd. and Xipho Development Co. Ltd.) Yearbook XIV (1989) pp. 215-223

The Karaha Bodas saga (in Part A, reporting on court decisions on the application of the New York Convention) 

• High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Court of First Instance, 20 December 2002 and 27 March 2003 (Karaha Bodas Co. LLC v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara – Pertamina) Yearbook XXVIII (2003) pp. 752-789 (Hong Kong no. 17)  

• High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Court of Appeal, 9 October 2007 and 16 June 2008 (Karaha Bodas Company LLC v. Persusahaan Pertambangan Minydak Dan Gas Bumi Negara) Yearbook XXXIII (2008) pp. 574-590 (Hong Kong no. 20) 

• Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 5 December 2008 (Karaha Bodas Company LLC v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara (otherwise known as Pertamina)) Yearbook XXXIV (2009) pp. 577-595 (Hong Kong no. 22) 

   

Related decisions from other Jurisdictions

• Canada: 

  Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, Judicial District of Edmonton, 9 December 2004 (Karaha Bodas Company, L.L.C. v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara, et al.) Yearbook XXX (2005) pp. 488-498 (Canada no. 19) 

• United States of America: 

  United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, 4 December 2001 (Karaha Bodas Company L.L.C. v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara) Yearbook XXVII (2002) pp. 814-838 (US no. 387)

  United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, 26 April 2002, 22 July 2002 and 17 April 2003 and United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 18 June 2003 (Karaha Bodas Company, L.L.C. v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara (Pertamina) Yearbook XXVIII (2003) pp. 908-964 (US no. 404)

  United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 23 March 2004 (Karaha Bodas Co., L.L.C. v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara, et al.) Yearbook XXIX (2004) pp. 1262-1302 (US no. 482)

  United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 7 September 2007 (Karaha Bodas Company, LLC v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara) Yearbook XXXIII (2008) pp. 1009-1023 (US no. 627) 

Reported in 2024

Hong Kong 2024-1. High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Court of First Instance, 24 August 2023, Construction and Arbitration Proceedings No 111 of 2022 (Song Lihua v Lee Chee Hon (former name: Que Wenbin)) 

• Christopher Thomas, A Search for International Enlightenment Through Arbitration: Andrew Carnegie, the Alabama Claims Arbitration, and the ‘Temple of Peace’
• Maxi Scherer, Artificial Intelligence in Arbitral Decision-Making: The New Enlightenment?
• Kathryn Khamsi, Artificial Intelligence and the Face of the Arbitrations of Tomorrow
• Melanie van Leeuwen, Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics in Arbitration 
• Bruno Gaundalini, Some “Wh”s of Training of Arbitrators on Bounded Rationality and Debiasing Techniques: Taking the Future of Arbitral Decision-Making Seriously 

• Lucy Reed, Lawmaking by Arbitrators
• Lucas Bastin, The Excessive Scope for “the Individual” in Decision-Making in Investment Arbitration: Views from Younger Practitioners 
• Mohamed S Abdel Wahab, Costs in International Arbitration: Navigating Through the Devil’s Sea

• Susan D Franck, James Freda, Kellen Lavin, Tobias Lehmann, Anne van Aaken, International Arbitration: Demographics, Precision and Justice
• Ricardo Dalmaso Marques, “To Diversify or Not to Diversify”? Report on the Session Who Are the Arbitrators?

• Michael J. Moser, How Asia Will Change International Arbitration
• Philippe Pinsolle, Arbitration and New Technologies