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Mary Thomson

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Work Department

36 Stone

Position

Mary is a Chartered Arbitrator and Mediator. Besides being a barrister in England & Wales and Hong Kong, she is a former solicitor who specialised in high court litigation, including the Court of Final Appeal, arbitration and mediation.

Mary’s extensive experience spans the financial, insurance, transport, energy, commodities and manufacturing sectors. Mary has conducted domestic and international arbitrations including HKIAC, ICC, SIAC, SCMA, LMAA, CIETAC and LOF arbitrations and has been appointed arbitrator since 1996 including pursuant to ‘commercial men’ clauses.

She is on the panel of arbitrators of various regional and global arbitration centres and also a number of mediator panels. She regularly sits as arbitrator in London, Hong Kong and Singapore and has successfully mediated large international commercial disputes.

Career

Barrister, England & Wales (1983, readmitted 2013); Solicitor, England & Wales (1991); Solicitor, Hong Kong (1992); Chartered Arbitrator, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2016); Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2000); Accredited Mediator, HKIAC (2002); Fellow, Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (2006); Accredited Adjudicator, HKIAC (2008); Training Programme for FDRC Mediators and Arbitrators Part II – Financial Products & Their Selling Process (2012); Barrister, Hong Kong (2013); Former Committees : Chair, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (East Asia Branch), Chair, Arbitration Standing Committee of ICC HK, President, Women in Shipping & Trade Association, Chair, Transport & Logistics Committee of ICC HK, Hong Kong Insurance Law Association; Editorial Board, Asian Dispute Review; Admiralty Court Users Committee; Hong Kong Maritime Law Association.

Publications of note: Lexis Practical Guidance, Arbitration section, Editorial Board; Insurance arbitration chapter, Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide, 2nd Edition by Sweet & Maxwell; Maritime Law & Practice in Hong Kong by Sweet & Maxwell, General Editor; ‘Insurer and Broker Win Commission Case in Hong Kong’ (Mondaq); ‘New Rules Seek to Tighten Regulation of China’s Insurance Market’ (Lexology); Admiralty volume, Hong Kong Court Forms in Civil Proceedings (Butterworths); ‘A Commercial Man” (Asian Dispute Review, Society of Maritime Arbitrators, New York); ‘Enforcement of Mainland Chinese arbitration award refused on public policy grounds in Hong Kong amid warnings on Med-Arb’ (Lexology, Mondaq and Seaview); ‘India declares it will enforce arbitration awards from China and Hong Kong’ (Mondaq, Seaview); Hong Kong’s State and Crown Immunity: Immunity for State-Owned Enterprises?’ (Mondaq, Seaview, Lexology and Client Alerts); ‘Hong Kong Court of Appeal Reinstates ICC Award and Confirms Case Management Autonomy of Arbitral Tribunals’ (Lexology & Clients Alerts).

Memberships

Chartered Arbitrator & Fellowship of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Chair, ARIAS Asia

Immediate Past Chair, CIArb EAB

LCIA

ICC Arbitration Commission