Hong Kong Court Stays Proceedings In Favour Of Arbitration Where No ‘Clear Intention By The Parties To Conclusively And Unreservedly Abandon The Arbitration Agreement’

The Hong Kong court has re-emphasised its pro-arbitration stance by staying proceedings in favour of arbitration in circumstances where the respondent accepted the existence of an arbitration agreement but argued that the parties had agreed to abandon it in favour of litigation.

The information in this document written by Ben Bury, Partner, HFW, was first published by Lexis®PSL on 11 October 2021.

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