Our Caroline Thomas gave a talk entitled “Paying for Arbitration” as part of The University of Hong Kong’s LLM Arbitration and Dispute Resolution series “Insights from the Dispute Resolution Community”. Caroline was introduced by the arbitrator Saniza Othman-Yong.
With her talk Caroline aimed to give her audience an overview over different options to finance arbitrations focusing on the ability of lawyers and third-party financiers to fund arbitrations. Caroline explained the historical background (including the doctrines of maintenance and champerty) and, in chronological order, the international trend towards allowing financing (within what seem to be converging limits).
The talk was video recorded by and is available with the kind permission of The University of Hong Kong.
Show Notes:
00:00 Introduction by Saniza Othman-Yong
02:21 Introduction and Agenda
04:14 Ways to pay for arbitration
09:39 Background – historic prohibitions
13:44 How third-party funding works
19:29 Australia
23:43 Europe
26:30 England & Wales
30:27 United States
32:27 Singapore
35:55 Hong Kong
41:30 Investor State Arbitration
42:54 Summary and trends
46:51 Some of the players
48:54 Q&A
This video is for informational purposes only. Its contents do not constitute legal or professional advice.
