Publish time: Tue Mar 30 00:00:00 CST 2010
On Mar. 19, 2010, Secretary General WANG Hongsong participated in the International Dispute Resolution Conference at University of Cambridge on invitation and delivered a keynote speech themed “Experiences of Arbitration Institutions in China”.
The International Dispute Resolution Conference at University of Cambridge is an international conference jointly sponsored by the London Branch of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and SICA-FICA, an International organization based in Hague aiming at the promotion, improvement and spread of ADR in commercial disputes in the whole world. The participants are senior arbitrators, mediators and lawyers engaging in the practice of dispute resolution from the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Austria and France. The organizers of the Conference thought that, with the rise of China’s economy, China is getting a bigger and bigger share in the global market of commercial dispute resolution services and it is becoming an integral knowledge reserve for practitioners in the international dispute resolution service sector to get to know the dispute resolution practice in China, so they specially invite BAC to participate in the Conference on behalf of China.
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Scene of speech | Rostrum |
In the keynote speech, Secretary General WANG Hongsong, taking BAC as an example, made a summarization and introduction of the positive experiences of Chinese arbitration institutions since the enactment of the Arbitration Law in 1995 from three aspects: ensuring the independence and justness through system design, adopting multiple measures to improve the arbitration efficiency and improving the arbitrators’ quality in an all-round manner, which greatly increasing the understanding of the participants to the arbitration system and practice in China. Many participants highly appraised the achievements of Chinese arbitration institutions with BAC as the leading representative. Mr. Toulmin CMG QC, Judge of the Technology and Construction Court of London, who was invited to participate in the Conference and acted as the host, said: “The Technology and Construction Court of London adopted the computer software system for the administration of cases only in the last year, I never thought that BAC has adopted such a tool for a long time.” Mr. Paul Whitely, Secretary General of SICA-FICA, said in the concluding speech that “BAC’s growth speed is very amazing”, “the amount of BAC’s arbitration cases is envied by its foreign colleagues”, and “it is unimaginable to foreign countries that the arbitration of a case only takes an average period of about 10 weeks in BAC.”