It is with great excitement that the Annual Kaplan Lecture will take place on 26th November this year. We are honored to have The Hon Geoffrey Ma as our distinguished speaker, who will discuss the theme: "Taking Arbitration to Where It Belongs: Dispensing Justice".

To some who are involved in arbitration, whether as arbitrators or counsel, it is primarily a business for the provision of services and a profession similar to the legal profession. While there are certainly features supporting this view, for many of us, it must at all times be borne in mind that the true, indeed principal, role of arbitration has always been to ensure that justice is done between parties in the determination of rights and liabilities according to law. The very infrastructure of arbitration consisting of its procedural rules and the limited, but vital, supervision over it by the courts, assumes this. 

This lecture advocates that there be a recognition of this fundamental position, and that from this starting point comes also the need to develop and adopt well established features of the administration of justice, hitherto regarded as the monopoly of the courts, to enable arbitration to reach its sole objective: the dispensing of justice. But is this achievable or merely a pipedream?

The lecture is accredited for 1 CPD point.



Please reach out to Krystal Cheng at kcheng@hkiac.org​ if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you at the lecture!

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