APCMC 2021 Official Opening a Massive Success!

To launch the ADC-ICC Asia Pacific Commercial Mediation Competition on Friday 10 September 2021, over 100 students, volunteers and dignitaries gathered online for the 'Official Opening'. ADC's CEO Deborah Lockhart was joined by Bryan Clarke, CEO of the International Chamber of Commerce, Australia in welcoming all APCMC participants, volunteers and special guests. Representing over 15 countries, our international attendees were honoured to receive a warm Welcome to Country from Auntie Bronwyn Penrith onto the land of the Gadigal People of [...]

APCMC 2021 is off and running!

For cultural and timezone reasons we started early! So exciting to see the first 2 sessions of APCMC2021 getting started this evening (AEST).  From Annebelle Davis and Lisa Frisken, two of this evening's judges: "Good evening Deborah Congratulations on a fantastic start to APCMC 2021.  Just judged the first round and wanted to say how impressive the teams were. They set a really high standard tonight. Its already shaping up as an awesome event. Go teams! Best, Annebelle   "First [...]

APPEA Conference 2021 Article

How the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry can leverage interdisciplinary research to more effectively engage with Indigenous communities Deborah Lockhart and Jessica Xu Since 2010, mining companies have requested permission for the destruction of over 463 Aboriginal heritage sites. Recent high-profile events have profoundly impacted culturally significant Indigenous sites, and mining companies are under intense pressure to demonstrate greater sensitivity in their relationships with stakeholders. In this paper presented to the APPEA Conference in Perth on 17 June 2021, [...]

Expert Determination – WIPO Updates its Rules

Jiabin Yu Effective 1 July 2021, the updated World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Expert Determination Rules came into force. What can users expect in WIPO-administrated expert determination proceedings? We look at the changes and offer a comparison with the ICC and LCIA Rules. Read about the changes here » Jiabin Yu Jiabin Yu holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia, and is currently pursuing his Juris Doctor at the Australian National University. [...]

CASE NOTE Beijing Jishi Venture Capital Fund (Limited Partnership) v Liu & Ors [2021] FCA 477

Larissa Welmans & Dr Sam Luttrell, Clifford Chance The Federal Court has recently issued a warning to all Arbitration Claimants to provide proper notice or run the risk of having an unenforceable award. The Court in Jishi Fund held that as one of the parties did not receive ‘proper notice of either the arbitration or the appointment of arbitrators’, the award should not be enforced under ‘public policy’ grounds of the International Arbitration Act 1974 (Cth). This shows an [...]

Expert Determination Case Note: Lainson Holdings Pty Ltd v Duffy Kennedy Pty Ltd [2019] NSWSC 576

The NSW Supreme Court clarified the role of experts appointed under expert determination clauses in Lainson Holdings Pty Ltd v Duffy Kennedy Pty Ltd (‘Lainson Holdings’).[1] The decision confirms that experts are not required to determine disputes ‘free of legal error’ in order for the decision to be binding, even where the contract required the determination to be ‘according to law’. The Facts Lainson Holdings Pty Ltd (‘Lainson’) and Duffy Kennedy Pty Ltd (‘Duffy’) entered into a building contract [...]

Asia-Pacific Regional Teams Excel in Paris

In an exciting all-woman final at the 16th ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition, New Zealand’s University of Auckland emerged victorious against Bulgaria’s University of Sofia. The University of New South Wales closely followed in third place. The National University of Singapore, the winner of 2020 APCMC, was also awarded ‘Best Team Work between Counsel and Client’.  48 university teams were selected to compete in 100 mock mediation sessions from 5 to 11 February 2021 in this globally-renowned competition. [...]

Registrations are open for the ADC-ICC Asia-Pacific Commercial Mediation Competition 2021

ADC and ICC extend a warm invitation to University students to compete in the 5th Annual ADC-ICC Asia Pacific Commercial Mediation Competition (APCMC) which will be held online from 10 -12 September 2021. The winning team of this competition recieves a reserved spot to compete in the 17th Annual ICC Mediation Competition in Paris, 2022. This is the world’s largest moot exclusively devoted to international commercial mediation. Most recently, we were thrilled to see our winner of APCMC 2019, [...]

Expert Determination Case Note: Lahey Constructions Pty Ltd v The State of New South Wales [2021] NSWCA 69

The Supreme Court of NSW Court of Appeal decision of Bathrust CJ, Bell P and Gleeson JA involved the interpretation of an expert determination clause in a building and construction contract and determining whether the decision of the primary judge that the expert determination was final and binding should be upheld, providing a clear summary of the construction considerations of ‘text’, ‘context’ and ‘purpose’. The matter concerns the proper construction of an ‘issue-resolution clause’ in two building contracts between [...]

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