Asia: Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration

The new national personal properties security scheme is due to commence in October 2011 and will have widespread impact on the way businesses record and conduct their commercial transactions. The reform promises to merge more than 40 separate Australian wide security registers into a uniform and functionally consistent national registration system.

The concept of damages due to misstatement has long been unfamiliar to Japanese investors.

A recent decision of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal has raised the issue of whether disciplinary proceedings against licensed and registered persons are civil or criminal in nature.

The Major Cases List was reintroduced as a sub-list of the VCAT Planning and Environment List as a "user pays" model.

Auckland Unleashed – the strategy which will determine the way Auckland lives, plays and does business over the next 30 years – has now been released for preliminary comment and is likely to progress swiftly from here.

The Queensland Supreme Court recently considered the liability of an employer and the contributory negligence of an employee in relation to a mining accident where an experienced mine worker passed two barriers before falling down a hole in the mine floor, known as a ‘stope’.

The creation of a dedicated commercial court is one of the ideas in the Law Commission's review of the NZ court system.

An offer of compromise in NSW must conform to Rule 20.26 of the UCPR and must be exclusive of costs to be valid.

A statement by the plaintiff as to what he would have done absent the defendant's negligence was rendered inadmissable.

This article links to details of steps involved in developing an IP strategy, to be aligned with a business strategy.

It may be crucial to find the most cost-effective and expeditious way to resolve a commercial dispute in Hong Kong.

This article continues to discuss The Legal System and Civil Procedure for Commercial Dispute Resolution in Hong Kong.