UK/HONG KONG: Inconsistent judgments on contractual waiver of state immunity

Friday, 09 December 2011

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Kim Rooney, arbitrator and barrister at Gilt Chambers in Hong Kong, says two recent decisions by the English and Hong Kong courts show conflicting approaches to the question of whether states can contractually waive their sovereign immunity.

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