Welcome to this issue of the Global DR Legal Update, our quarterly newsletter which aims to bring together the most important global developments in litigation and arbitration.
In this issue:
- Asia Pacific
- Law Reform Commission examining role of third-party funding on class actions
- SPC launches International Commercial Courts
- HKIAC unveils new panel of financial services disputes arbitrators
- Court enforces foreign judgment under Hague Convention for first time
- EMEA
- International Business Court bill submitted to Belgian Parliament
- Final EU Member accedes to Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
- German Government introduces class actions for consumer claims
- Launch of Netherlands Commercial Court delayed by Dutch Senate
- The Americas
- Superior Court of Justice reaffirms principle of "competence-competence" in arbitration
- British Columbia modernizes its international commercial arbitration legislation
- Arbitrators not subject to "amparo" constitutional challenges
- Foreign governments' interpretation of their nations' laws not binding on Federal Courts
- Foreign corporations cannot be sued in US under Alien Tort Statute
- Global
- New civil law based rules on taking of evidence in international arbitration
- Final draft convention published in Hague Judgments Project
- Convention on the Enforcement of Mediation Settlements approved by UNCITRAL
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