Annual Report 2009 - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

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Annual Report 2009EAST ASIA BranchChairman: Timothy HillThe principal East Asia Branch officers for 2009 were:Timothy Hill (Chairman), Joseph Gilfeather and Man Yeung(Vice Chairs), Nicholas Longley (Honorary Secretary), JosephGilfeather (Honorary Treasurer) and Raymond Au (PublicRelations Officer).The East Asia Branch has enjoyed a busy and successfulyear. This report summarises some of the highlights.We were pleased and proud to see the establishment of theSingapore Branch in January 2010. A little over 250members of the branch resident in Singapore have nowtransferred to the new branch. We congratulate ChristopherLau SC on his appointment as the inaugural Chairman andwish him and his committee good fortune. Particular thanksare due to Jayems Dhingra who served on both the branchand chapter committees in the last year and undertookmuch of the hard work associated with the establishment ofthe branch. We very much look forward to working with theSingapore Branch in the coming years.On 9 April, we jointly organised with the CIETAC SouthChina Sub-Commission a half day conference onInternational Arbitration Involving People’s Republic of Chinaparties. In addition to Dr Han Jian, Secretary-General andMr Liu Xiaochun, Deputy Secretary General of the CIETACSouth China Sub-Commission and other delegates fromCIETAC and South China we were joined by Ms AnnetteMagnusson, Secretary-General of the Arbitration Institute ofthe Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. The event attendedby over 70 delegates was followed by a reception. Theevent provided an excellent opportunity for the exchange ofexperience and ideas regarding the development ofarbitration. Thanks go to Richard Leung, chair of theorganising sub-committee, Jessica Chan and Cheryl Je fortheir efforts in organising this event.The branch has joined with the HKIAC and other interestedbodies to establish the Joint Mediation Helpline service, asfrontline service to offer assistance to parties interested inresolving disputes by mediation. Thanks go to Man SingYeung and Nicholas Longley for their efforts in this regard.Thanks are once more due to Man Sing Yeung for hisleadership of this project.With the assistance of funding from the Hong KongGovernment's PSDAS Scheme the Branch was able to fundand publish a DVD of a mock arbitration. This was recordedat an event on 6 June 2009 and followed up by seminars inJuly and November.The Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot,was once more a great success. A record number of 75teams participated in the event. The winning team this yearin the oral arguments was the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat ofFreiburg Germany. Particular thanks are due to LouiseBarrington for her continued efforts in leading this event.We have had an active year in terms of our programme. Wehave held a speaker meeting at least once every month andon most occasions twice. Our thanks go to Richard Barton,Mike Charlton, Paul Darling, Jessica Fei, Paulo Fohlin,Richard Hill, Peter Ho, Kaj Hober, Doug Jones, Cheng YeeKhong, Nicholas Longley, Danny McFadden, StephenRuttle, Mary Thompson, Colin Wall for participating. Thanksalso go to Raymond Au who has chaired the ProgrammeSub-Committee.East Asia Branch members continue to hold importantpositions within the Institute. Colin Wall represents the EastAsia region on the Board of Trustees. Louise Barringtonserves on the Education and Membership Committee.Giovanna Kwong serves on the Practice and StandardsCommittee.The Honorary Treasurer, Joe Gilfeather, continues to managethe branch funds to ensure that the branch remainsfinancially healthy. Please refer to his Treasurer's Report forfull details. The branch again operated at a modest deficitfor the financial year, it continues to invest in thedevelopment of the chapters.The Branch Committee and the Professional DevelopmentSub-Committee continue to work towards addressing theInstitute's revised schemes for continuing professionaldevelopment. We had hoped to be able to roll out a programmeof training for the various pathways to membership duringthe course of the year; unfortunately this has not provedpossible. However, the committee will continue to work onthis project and we would hope that next year's committeewould be in a position to begin to provide this training. It isintended that this training will be based upon the newarbitration ordinance once finalised. However, if necessary,the branch will provide "jurisdiction-neutral" courses with aview to addressing this outstanding need.Entry Courses were held in Hong Kong in May and Novemberand in Indonesia in December.The 2009 Winnie Whittaker Memorial Lecture was deliveredby Andrezj Cierpicki and was well attended.Page 18CIArb Annual Report 2009: International Branch Reports
Annual Report 2009As at 30 March 2010, the total branch membership stood at1,669, after the transfer of members to the SingaporeBranch. Of these, 1,447 were in Hong Kong, whilst the nexttwo largest groups were in the Mainland China (99) andIndonesia (38).The YMG has enjoyed a busy and varied year. In addition toevents focused on developing members knowledge ofalternative dispute resolution a varied programme ofcommunity service, sporting and social activities have beenundertaken. Plans are currently underway for a delegation tovisit Shanghai. The YMG has been chaired by Johnson Leethis year.The branch continues to be represented on the EditorialCommittee of the Asian Dispute Review Journal by PaulBarratt and Paulo Fohlin. The branch newsletter continuesto be published quarterly, and particular thanks are due toPaulo for his efforts as editor and prime mover in ensuringthat we publish the newsletter regularly. The website has beenupdated regularly under the management of Sacha Cheong.I would like to take this opportunity to thank all members ofthe branch committee for their considerable efforts in thepast year. I would particular like to thank John Cock,Immediate Past Chair, for his assistance and guidance to me.Thanks also to Primrose Law and the staff of the HKIAC fortheir dedicated support without which the branch could notfunction.■EUROPEAN BranchChairman: Axel ReegIn 2009, the European Branch held two meetings, theSpring Meeting in Milan and the Autumn Meeting in Tunis.The Spring Meeting in Milan, held at the end of March inconjunction with the Camera Arbitrale de la Camera diCommercio di Milano, was extraordinarily well organised by agroup of committee members headed by Giovanni De Berti,Cecilia Carrara and Antonio Franchi. It had a very goodturnout in attendees and a high level and interestingprogramme on diverse topics, covering issues of arbitrationand ADR in Italy and, on the second day, issues of a broaderinterest. Particular mention should be made to a session in atalk show format organized by Jo Kuckenburg with fourexperienced arbitration practitioners whose contributionswere limited to a maximum of two minutes at a time. Thisresulted in a very high-level but also most entertaining session.It was no wonder that almost 100 percent of the participantsstayed in the session room not only on the Friday but alsoon the whole of the Saturday of the conference.Likewise, the Tunis Conference was a big success. It wasjointly organized with the ICC and the Lebanon and CairoBranches of the Institute. Apart from focusing on the specialsituation of arbitration in the Maghreb countries, the conferencewas entitled “The place of arbitration – does it matter?”. Thelayout of the conference, the topics and the speakersselected, organized and presented by Sami Houerbi and JoKuckenburg was extremely well received and was a greatsuccess. It should also be mentioned that Emmanuel Gaillardfrom Paris guided the audience through the sessions with ahigh class initial presentation and, at the end of the conference,with an equally high-level summary.Apart from this, the branch committee have held their tworegular meetings and the Annual Meeting was held on theoccasion of the conference in Milan.The branch has further developed projects to organisetraining programmes with established arbitration institutionson the continent and it has represented the Institute on theoccasion of the first European Arbitration Forum held in Kievin May 2009. Finally, the branch is excited about the prospectof hosting the Institute’s Congress to be held in Heidelberg,Germany in October 2010.■INDIA BranchChairman: Lalit BhasinThe principal India Branch officers for 2009 were: Lalit Bhasin(Chairman), Chandrakant Kamdar (Honorary Secretary) andAnil Shah (Honorary Treasurer).The branch was re-activated in October 2008 andsubsequently registered in the name of Chartered Institute ofArbitrators (India) under Section 25 of the Indian CompaniesAct and registered by Registrar of Companies, Maharastra,India. The Board of Directors of CIArb (India) consists of LalitBhasin, Chandrakant Kamdar, Anil Shah and Nusrat Hassan.The branch was officially inaugurated on 26 November 2009in Delhi by Hon Dr M Veerappa Moily, Union Minister of Lawand Justice in the distinguished presence of Mr MichaelForbes Smith, Director General of CIArb, Hon Justice Mr JSVerma, Former Chief Justice of India, Mr RKP Shankardass,distinguished members of the bar, law students, membersof CIArb India and other dignitaries. Membership of thebranch currently stands at 60.CIArb Annual Report 2009: International Branch ReportsPage 19
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