Professional Practice
Samuel is an experienced dispute resolver. He practices as a barrister and regularly adjudicates disputes as an arbitrator. His practice covers a wide range of commercial disputes in which the governing law of the contract spans from Hong Kong law, New York law, PRC law and UK law. He also practices as an effective mediator.
Samuel was involved with various task forces including the working group of the Hong Kong Department of Justice for the drafting of the Arbitration Bill and the reform of the law of arbitration in Hong Kong and the ICC Taskforce on the Review of the ICC Arbitration Rules in 2009. He was on the Department of Justice’s Advisory Committee on Promotion of Arbitration.
He regularly gives lectures on arbitration and mediation to professional groups and at universities. He has also written articles that were published in arbitration reviews, contributed a chapter to Arbitration in China – A Practical Guide by Sweet & Maxwell 2004 and authored Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance 2011- A Guide and Commentary which was published in September 2011. He is on the Editorial Board of Asian Dispute Resolution.
Samuel also has extensive litigation experience in civil and commercial matters in the Hong Kong. He arbitrates as sole and presiding arbitrator in construction, international sales of goods (commodities and metals), insurance, professional negligence, international trade, shipping and China equity joint venture disputes. He was appointed in numerous ad hoc and institutional arbitrations carried out under the rules of CIETAC, other PRC Arbitration Commissions, ICC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL Arbitration rules and has rendered over 80 arbitral and administrative panel decisions. He has also advocated for parties in Hong Kong in ad hoc arbitrations and in FOSFA, LME and ICC arbitrations.
He has mediated and settled various disputes involving incorporated owners buildings management, shareholders’ rights, land, probate, financial products, maritime and charterparties, bank and client and other general contractual disputes.
Read MoreArbitration:
President, Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (5 Terms)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators
Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Mediation:
CEDR Accredited Mediator
CEDR Trained Mediator Assessor
HKMAAL Accredited Mediator
CEDR Master of Negotiation
ICSID Trained Mediator for Investor State Disputes Resolution
Academia:
– Adjunct Professor, City University of Hong Kong
On the current panels of arbitrators of:
– The China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission
– South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission/Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration
– Shanghai International Arbitration Center
– The Kuala Lumpur Regional Center for Arbitration (KLRCA re-named AIIC)
– Indian Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators
– Guangzhou, Nanjing and Wenzhou Arbitration Commission
– Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
– Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators
– Hong Kong Bar Association
– Arbitration Committee of International Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, China (2007-now)
Past panels of:
The Arbitration Commissions of Nanjiang, Wuhan, Dalian, Suzhou, Karamay, Weizhou (Guangdong) of the PRC
Experts for Domain Name Disputes of the HKIAC
Mediation:
Speaker for the 5th Asia Mediation Association
Shenzhen Court Mediator
Guangzhou Court Appointed Mediator
Publications:
Authored – Chapter 23 Real Estate Arbitration in Arbitration in China, A Practical Guide by Sweet & Maxwell 2004
Authored – Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance Cap 609 of 2011 – A Guide and Commentary
Authored – Articles published in Asian Dispute Resolution including Soybean Contracts and FOSFA Arbitration
Talks:
Talk to members of the Hong Kong Construction Arbitration Center on the new Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance (Cap 609) on 13 March 2012
Speech “Some Issues and Recent Development” in a Conference on International Arbitration organized by the Hong Kong Academy of Law and the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators on 22 May 2012
Seminar to members of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers on 31 July 2012
Talk on International Arbitration at the Nansha Arbitration Cooperation and Development Forum on 5 December 2012
Talk at APEC Conference in Peru 2016 on Issues in connection with the Commencement of an International Arbitration
Talk on International Arbitration in connection with the “Road and Belt Initiative” in the “兩岸四地法律研讨“ Conference in Ningbo on March 2016
Lectured on Practical Guide to International Arbitration to members of the Jiangsu Lawyers’ Association (2017)
Lectured on Statutory Adjudication in relation to the Security for Payment Legislation for the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (2017)
Lectured IDRA Master Class for International Arbitration conducted under ICC Rules in Hong Kong (2018).
Lectured on Conduct of Arbitral Proceedings (International Arbitration) at the School of Law, City University
Talked to members of the International Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Law Society, the Hong King Institute of Arbitrators on various arbitral topics including “Ex-parte Communication” and “ FOSFA’s Two Tier Arbitration rules”