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She served as Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from 2018 to 2022. She was also the chairperson of the Financial Dispute Resolution Centre, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and vice-president of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA).
The Centre was established in 1985 to promote the use of arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution services in Asia. Formed as a non-profit making company limited by guarantee under Hong Kong law, HKIAC was originally funded with assistance from the business community and the Hong Kong Government.
In 1975, Wu was a founding member of the Hong Kong Observers, a group of liberal-minded intellectuals and professionals. [2]From 1993 to 1995 she was a member of the Legislative Council, but left disappointed having failed to put through three equal opportunities bills, citing government and bureaucratic intransigence towards greater public accountability.
Hong Kong is far from claiming victory in the highly contested race to become Asia's top international arbitration spot. But the Chinese Special Administrative Region and its new justice chief are ...
International arbitration is an alternative to local court procedures. International arbitration has different rules than domestic arbitration, [6] and has its own non-country-specific standards of ethical conduct. [7] The process may be more limited than typical litigation and forms a hybrid between the common law and civil law legal systems. [8]
David W. Rivkin (born 1955) is an independent arbitrator affiliated with Arbitration Chambers [2] (in New York, London and Hong Kong). For more than 40 years, Mr. Rivkin practiced private and public international law at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, [3] where he served as co-chair of its International Dispute Resolution Group for more than 20 years and was a founder of its Business Integrity/ESG ...
The centre provides administrative and technical support for a number of international dispute resolution proceedings through alternative facilities such as the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, France.
Ellen Li: [119] First female Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong (1948) Betty Searle: [120] First female magistrate in Hong Kong (1956) Maria Ip: [121] First female appointed as an Assistant Crown Counsel in Hong Kong (1976) Marjorie Chui: [122] [123] First female Chinese judge in Hong Kong (1976) Helen Lo: [124] [125] First female appointed as a ...