Following the launch of China's International Commercial
Courts, the authorities in China are taking steps to support
international arbitration too - even when it is administered by
foreign arbitral institutions. Notes have just been published by
two institutions guiding parties and their lawyers through new
procedures.
In April 2019 the government of Hong Kong and the PRC's
Supreme People's Court (SPC) announced an arrangement allowing
parties to arbitrations seated in the island to apply for interim
measures from courts in mainland China. Significantly, the
arrangement extends not only to arbitrations administered by the
Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), but to those
handled by other institutions too. A list of qualifying
institutions was published a few months later, and the arrangement
went live on 1 October. Among the listed institutions are the
International Court of Arbitration (ICC) - the only arbitration
institution on the list that is
