Summaries of Seminars; Belt & Road and Arbitration; Case Studies and Donations

Achievements in 2016

The 12 months 2016 observed huge progress produced by the China Guiding Scenarios Task (“CGCP”):

•      Our totally free, online information-base has amassed approximately 50,000 special end users because the upgraded version was introduced a 12 months in the past.

•      CGCP Founder and Director Dr. Mei Gechlik’s LinkedIn posts about the CGCP have captivated pretty much eleven,five hundred followers.

•      With sort assist from our distinguished speakers, which include the Honorable Decide GUO Feng, Deputy Director Basic, Analysis Workplace of the Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”) of the People’s Republic of China, and his colleagues, Decide SHI Lei and Decide LI Bing, our seminars held in November in Beijing and Hong Kong were attended by somewhere around two hundred lawful practitioners, officials, lecturers, and pupils.  To discover out how the three judges discussed, among other problems, the thought of aspects which include “social effects” in the selection of Guiding Scenarios, and to find out what other speakers talked over, be sure to obtain the English and Chinese function summaries below.

•      The CGCP introduced the Belt & Road Series very last thirty day period to attract our world wide audience’s consideration to the relationship in between the Guiding Scenarios Method and China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

In his speech titled “‘One Belt Just one Road’: Possibilities and Issues for Chinese Businesses” delivered at the Beijing seminar, Dr. Yu Jianlong, Secretary Basic of the China Chamber of Global Commerce (CCOIC) & Vice Chairman of the China Global Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), identified lawful hazards as massive hurdles struggling with Chinese corporations checking out investment decision prospects in “Belt and Road” international locations.  Dr. Yu recommended the Guiding Scenarios Method, along with the exchange of trial working experience and instruction courses, as remedial measures and emphasized the improvement of arbitration means, for occasion with the publication of arbitration circumstances to serve as steerage.

A superior arbitration circumstance serving as steerage is B&R Normal Case 6 (Zhe Jiang Yisheng Petrochemical Co., Ltd. v. INVISTA Technologies S.à.r.l., Luxembourg, A Case of an Software to Affirm the Invalidity of an Arbitration Clause (2014)). This circumstance displays how the Chinese judiciary identified, for the initial time, the validity of a clause in which contractual functions agreed to have a everlasting arbitration establishment in China deal with an arbitration procedure in accordance with the Arbitration Principles of the United Nations Commission on Global Trade Legislation.  In addition, with respect to the contractual conditions in dispute, the court docket adopted the teleological system of interpretation which helped notice the parties’ desire to arbitrate.  This circumstance was picked as a regular circumstance in this region mainly because of its “significance in [serving as] a regular model for selling the building of various dispute settlement mechanisms, supporting the internationalization of arbitration, and improving the credibility of arbitration.”  For additional details about this and other B&R Normal Scenarios, be sure to read B&R Scenarios^TM.

•      Every thirty day period, we characteristic a find quantity of international locations protected by the Belt & Road Series.  We also launch new B&R Texts^TM, a compilation of key resources forming the lawful framework of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which include lawful cooperation agreements in between China and international locations along the “Belt and Road” routes.  This thirty day period, we are pleased to emphasize B&R Texts^TM from the subsequent international locations from Western Europe, Oceania and Northern Europe:  Australia, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands.  Really don’t miss out on the investment decision agreements in between China and these international locations now obtainable on our internet site.  In circumstance you skipped our November announcement, Germany and Luxembourg have also been posted.  For the whole checklist of “Belt and Road” international locations, be sure to stop by below.

Phone for Case Research and Donations

Have your clients at any time asked you questions about Guiding Scenarios and their applicability to their pending litigation, arbitration, or mediation circumstances?  Do our significant-good quality translations of Guiding Scenarios and B&R Normal Scenarios as effectively as associated analyses assistance your observe?  Do you have any other fascinating ordeals associated to the use of Guiding Scenarios or B&R Normal Scenarios?  If sure, be sure to share your tales with us by calling Dr. Mei Gechlik at [email protected].  We would like to compile circumstance research in this region and, anywhere acceptable, supply publication or talking prospects. 

We reached a lot in 2016, but we hope to attain even additional in 2017 to profit you and other individuals.  You should contemplate generating a present to us right now and turn out to be element of our historic mission to assistance China acquire its circumstance regulation method.  Thank you!