By Matthew Townsend and James Rogers
This article was first published in the Global Arbitration
Review online news, 12th December 2011
English and Chinese perspectives on international arbitration
was the theme of a recent event co-hosted in Beijing by the China
Britain Law Institute, or CBLI, and the Bar Council of England and
Wales. CBLI co-founder Matthew Townsend and his
colleague James Rogers, both of Fulbright &
Jaworski's Beijing and Hong Kong offices, report.
Arbitration procedure and culture
Western businesses can be wary of arbitrating in mainland China.
Sometimes this trepidation is justified, and sometimes less so.
Nevertheless, it is a fact of commercial life that, through the
effect of domestic legislation and the bargaining power of Chinese
parties to China-related international commercial contracts,
international disputes are often settled by arbitration in the
PRC.
