About the Seminar:

On 1 May 2013, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) will release its revised Administered Arbitration Rules. The release follows a year-long revision process, and is the first update since the Rules were originally issued in 2008. The revised Rules include significant new features, reflecting HKIAC's status as one of the world's leading arbitral institutions. 

Justin D'Agostino, member of the HKIAC Council and Head of the Greater China Arbitration practice at Herbert Smith Freehills, and Ruth Stackpool-Moore, Managing Counsel of the HKIAC, will explain the key revisions and what they mean for users of HKIAC arbitration. 

Camilla Godman, Deputy Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), will offer a comparative perspective from the standpoint of the 2010 SIAC Arbitration Rules. This will be followed by ample time for discussion and questions from the floor.

Please join us for what promises to be a lively discussion – and be among the first to get a glimpse of the new HKIAC Rules. 

Programme 

About the Speakers: 

Justin D’Agostino is Head of the Greater China international arbitration practice at Herbert Smith Freehills and a member of the Council of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. He specialises in international commercial arbitration and public international law and is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong and as a solicitor advocate in England & Wales. He spends his time between Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, and has also practised with Herbert Smith Freehills from their Singapore, Bangkok and London offices. He has acted as counsel and advocate before arbitral tribunals in a number of jurisdictions and has experience in arbitrations under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules as well as the auspices of SIAC, ICC, CIETAC, SCC, LCIA and ICSID, and ad hoc under the UNCITRAL Rules. Justin also sits as an arbitrator. As a member of Herbert Smith Freehills' specialist international law team, Justin also advises state authorities and companies on a range of public and private international law issues including those relating to treaties and to the protection of foreign investments, on related insurance claims, on the applicability of international sanctions laws and on proceedings under MLATs (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties). Justin is also a founding member of HK45.

Camilla Godman is Deputy Registrar of the SIAC. Her role is to supervise the Case Management Team in daily case administration work and assist the Registrar in overseeing the operation of case management. Before joining SIAC in April 2012, Camilla was a Senior Associate in the Asia Disputes team of Ashurst LLP, based in Singapore. Camilla has considerable experience in international arbitration and specifically in oil and gas and commercial disputes. She has also been seconded to a Japanese trading company in Singapore, working on projects in various jurisdictions throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Camilla trained at Ashurst LLP in London and qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2004. She relocated from London to Singapore in September 2008 where she assisted setting up the Asia Disputes Team for Ashurst LLP. Camilla graduated from Oxford University (Worcester College) in 1999 with a 2:1 in Experimental Psychology. She studied for the LPC at the BPP Law College (London) and the CPE at the College of Law (London). She has Higher Rights of Audience in the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Camilla is a Member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

Ruth Stackpool-Moore is an Australian and UK qualified lawyer working as Managing Counsel of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). She oversees the administration of arbitrations and works to promote the use of Hong Kong arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution worldwide. Prior to joining the HKIAC, Ruth worked with several international law firms in London, Sydney and Paris advising on a wide range of proceedings including international commercial arbitrations conducted under the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICDR, VIAC and WIPO rules of arbitration as well as associated national court proceedings in civil and common law jurisdictions. She also provided advice regarding the formulation and drafting of arbitration and dispute resolution clauses in commercial contracts, including multi-party and multi-contract situations. Ruth graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics (Social Science) in 2001 and a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Hons) in 2005. She was admitted as solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South of Wales and High Court of Australia in 2006 and in England and Wales in 2010. 

About the Chairman: 

Yu-Jin Tay is a partner of DLA Piper in Singapore and a global co-chair of the firm's international arbitration practice. He specialises in international arbitrations arising from M&A, joint venture, oil and gas, energy, infrastructure and general commercial disputes, and has experience of arbitrations under the rules of most of the world's leading arbitral institutions. In addition to acting as counsel, he sits as an arbitrator as well and has received appointments in ICC, SIAC, LCIA and ad hoc arbitrations. He is a member of various panels of arbitrators including the SIAC, KLRCA, KCAB and VIAC and is a Fellow and Council Member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Since 2001, he has had experience advising and representing investors and governments in investment treaty arbitrations. He has also been commissioned by international development agencies to conduct arbitration training and capacity-building for governments in Asia and he is a member of the Advisory Board of Africa International Legal Awareness, a global non-profit focused on international investment law. Yu-Jin was featured in the 2011 edition of Global Arbitration Review's 45 under 45 and is regularly listed in legal directories including GAR's International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration (since 2010), Chambers Asia-Pacific and Asia-Pacific Legal 500 (since 2008) and the Euromoney Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration (since 2006).

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