Serle Court publishes its 32nd edition of SerleSpeak

Our latest issue of SerleSpeak focuses on Arbitration. In this issue, our barristers explore key cases and developments as follows:

John Machell KC analyses the keenly anticipated Privy Council decision in FamilyMart China Holding Co Ltd v Ting Chuan (Cayman Islands) Holding Corporation [2023] UKPC 33 on the extent to which effect should be given to an arbitration agreement in a shareholders’ agreement in the face of a petition for just and equitable winding up.

Wilson Leung comments on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal’s recent decision in C v D [2023] HKCFA 16 that stepped arbitration clauses go to admissibility rather than jurisdiction.

Ramyaa Veerabathran considers the decision of the English court to refuse to enforce a Californian arbitration award in favour of a crypto-asset exchance on public policy grounds, Payward Inc and Ors v Chechetkin [2023] EWHC 1780 (Comm).

Jennifer Haywood summarises some recent English and Singapore cases touching on the limits to the confidentiality of arbitrations.

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John Machell KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular experience in large-scale litigation involving trusts, fiduciary/director duties, and fraud, particularly with an international dimension.

John is regarded as one of the leading partnership and LLP silks and has experience of a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters across the whole range of business sectors. A large part of his work involves issues arising from the use of partnerships and LLPs in hedge fund and private equity structures; in international commercial group structures; and as part of wealth planning strategies.

A substantial part of John’s practice is offshore, and he has appeared in the courts of Grand Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda on several occasions in recent years.