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Mallesons Stephen Jaques, 13th Floor, Gloucester Tower, The Landmark, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3443 1079, Fax: +852 3443 1299
Also at Pine House, The Square, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire GL54 1AF, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1451 833 770, Fax: +44 (0) 1451 833 771
Also at Essex Court Chambers, 24 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London wc2a 3ed
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7813 8000, Fax: +44 (0) 20 7813 8080
Email: neilkaplan@btconnect.com
URL: www.nkaplan.org
St Paul’s School, London 1956-1961
King’s College, London University (Law) 1961–1964
Bachelor of Laws degree, 1964
CAREER and KEY POSITIONS HELD
1965- · Called to the Bar of England and Wales
1965–1980 · Practised at the London Bar from Chambers at 1 Garden Court, Temple
1979– · Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
1980–1982 · Deputy Principal Crown Counsel, Attorney General’s Chambers, Hong Kong with special responsibility for civil litigation
1982 · Queen’s Counsel for Hong Kong
1982–1983 · Principal Crown Counsel (Deputy Law Officer on Civil Side — Acting Solicitor-General and Crown Solicitor on occasions)
1983 · Left Attorney’s General’s Chambers and returned to private practice at the Hong Kong Bar. Founder and Head of Des Voeux Chambers
1983– · Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in the State of Victoria, Australia
1984– · Justice of the Peace for Hong Kong
1984–1987 · Chairman of the Hong Kong Branch, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
1986– · Admitted to New York Bar
1988–1989 · Chairman of the Hong Kong Branch, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
1990–1994 · High Court Judge for Hong Kong (Judge in Charge of Construction and Arbitration List, Member of Judicial Studies Board, Chairman of the committee to examine court annexed mediation and related topics)
1990–2004 · Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
1991– · Bencher of the Inner Temple
1992–1998 · Overseas Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
1995–2000 · Chairman of the Disputes Review Board for Hong Kong’s new airport at Chek Lap Kok
1995–1997 · Visiting Professor to Faculty of Law, City University of Hong Kong
1995– · Member of the Council of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA)
1997–2006 · Chairman of the Release under Supervision Board of Hong Kong
1999–2004 · Chairman of the WTO Review Panel for Hong Kong
1999– · Chartered Arbitrator
1999–2000 · President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
2000– · Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong Telecommunications Appeal Tribunal
2001 · Awarded CBE for services to international arbitration
2004– · Honorary Professor, City University Hong Kong
2007– · Chair of Telecommunications (Competition Provisions) Appeal Board of Hong Kong
2007 · Awarded Silver Bauhinia Star by Hong Kong SAR
2009– · International Arbitration Adviser to Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Hong Kong.
1985 · Co-author of chapter on Hong Kong Arbitration for Year Book of International Commercial Arbitration
1986–1991 · Articles in Journal of International Arbitration, Arbitration, American Journal of International Arbitration
1991 · Kaplan, Spruce & Cheng’s Hong Kong Arbitration — Cases and Materials, Butterworths
1993 · Completed text of new ICCA chapter on Hong Kong’s New Arbitration Law
1994 · Kaplan, Spruce & Moser’s Arbitration in Hong Kong and China, Butterworths
1995 · Author of article for the American Bar Association’s International Committee’s Newsletter
· Author of article for the Swiss Arbitration Association’s Journal
2002 · Co-author of Model Law Decisions – Cases applying the UNCITRAL Model Law, Kluwer, 2002
2004 · General Editor - Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide – Thomson – Sweet & Maxwell
1995-2004 · Author of numerous articles on arbitration and speaker at various conferences and seminars worldwide.
In addition to being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, I am also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators and a panellist at many arbitration centres including CIETAC and a member of the LCIA.
In addition to conducting arbitrations in England and Hong Kong, I have also conducted arbitrations in the USA, France, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Korea, Laos, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Dubai, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Indonesia and China.
Since 1995 I have been in full time practice as an arbitrator and have administered several hundred cases as co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator or chairman of an arbitral tribunal. I have conducted a wide range of commercial, infrastructural and investment treaty disputes. These have been under the rules of ICC, HKIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SIAC, SCC, ICSID and CIETAC. I have conducted ad hoc cases as well as cases administered by the PCA and other institutions.
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