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Kaplan Lecture 2021: Arbitrating Financial Disputes - are they different and what lies ahead?

Date: 1 December 2021

Time: 18.00 Hong Kong Time

Venue: Not available

Event Details

The Kaplan Lecture 2021 will be delivered by  Sir William Blair on the topic Arbitrating Financial Disputes - are they different and what lies ahead?

Sir William (Bill) Blair is a former Judge of London's Commercial Court whose expertise is in commercial and financial law and dispute resolution. He is considered a leading international expert in the law of banking and finance.

Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, he served as a High Court Judge in England and Wales for nearly ten years, and was Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court from 2016. He helped to establish the specialist Financial List, and the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts. He was the first President of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities until 2019.

Sir William sits as an arbitrator and has had LCIA, ICC and ICSID appointments both as Chair and party-appointed arbitrator. He is a member of the LCIA and is listed on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA), the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and HKIAC's Panel of Arbitrators and Panel of Arbitrators for Financial Services Disputes. In 2018, he was appointed Chair of the Bank of England's Enforcement Decision Making Committee (EDMC). In 2018, he was appointed to the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China. He has served on missions for the World Bank, the IMF, and the Asian Development Bank.

Organised by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre

Pricing and Registration

The lecture is free to attend . charges apply for CPD applications as follows:

HK$100 (HKIAC Users Council)

HK$200 (Non-member)

CPD points pending approval.

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