Herbert Smith Freehills has launched the latest edition of its practical guide, "Governing law and dispute resolution clauses for China-related contracts‎". Popularly known as 'The Dragon Book', the guide helps in-house lawyers negotiating China-related commercial contracts to understand the workings… Read more

Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon: Adjudicator, advocate, or something in between? Coming to terms with the role of the party-appointed arbitrator The Herbert Smith Freehills-SMU Asian Arbitration Lecture Series was established in 2010 and was made possible by a term fund… Read more

From our market leading research on how blue-chips are using ADR to our lead role in a recent landmark convention on "Shaping the Future of International Dispute Resolution" in London, Herbert Smith Freehills' award winning global ADR practice has long… Read more

The Hong Kong Legislative Council has finally introduced laws to entitle private sector male employees to paternity leave.  From 27 February 2015, male employees will be entitled to take up to three days of paternity leave in recognition of the… Read more

At the Opening of Legal Year 2015 on 5 January, the Singapore International Commercial Court ("SICC") was officially launched by the Chief Justice of Singapore, Mr Sundaresh Menon. The SICC had been two years in the making since it was… Read more

The Sex Discrimination (Amendment) Ordinance 2014—Ordinance No. 19 of 2014 came into force on 12 December 2014. The amended ordinance can be found here. The amended Ordinance provides that it is unlawful for anyone to sexually harass a woman who… Read more

In Dar Al Arkan Real Estate Development Co and another v Al-Sayed Bader Hashim Al Refai and others [2014] EWCA Civ 715, the English Court of Appeal confirmed that contempt proceedings are extra-territorial, by holding that such proceedings may be… Read more

In our previous post  we reported that, in Green & Rowley v RBS, the English Court of Appeal rejected the claimant's argument that RBS' common law duty of care not to mis-state incorporated all its relevant duties under certain regulatory… Read more