Read the full judgment text of HCCT 000095/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 19 January 1998.
1. This is one of a number of ex parte applications that have come before me recently by which the plaintiffs have sought leave to enforce arbitral awards made in mainland China. I have asked that these matters be argued before me because, of course, since the People's Republic of China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong on 1 July 1997, Hong Kong and mainland China have ceased to be separate parties to the New York Convention vis-à-vis each other. This matter has been argued by Ms Teresa Cheng,