CIETAC unveils new arbitration rules for 2015

Table of contents

• What are the key changes?
• Emergency arbitration
• Multiple contracts
• Joinder of additional parties
• Consolidation
• Organisational changes
• Special provisions for Hong Kong arbitration
• Any other interesting changes?
• Any omissions?
• What's next?

Article summary

Arbitration analysis: on 19 November 2014, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) unveiled its revised arbitration rules, which will take effect from 1 January 2015 (the CIETAC Rules 2015). In this article, we analyse what’s changed since the rules were last revised in 2012.