How to resolve the CIETAC dispute: rebranding

April 26, 2013 | BY

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The bitter dispute between CIETAC and its sub-commissions that has cast a shadow over dispute resolution in China may finally be over with the establishment of the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre

It has almost been a year since CIETAC's amended Arbitration Rules came into effect on May 1 2012. After those new Rules came out, the Shanghai sub-commission of CIETAC declared that it was an independent arbitration body and would follow its own rules and appoint its own panel of arbitrators.

The South China sub-commission in Shenzhen followed Shanghai, creating a public battle involving China's oldest arbitration institution. Financial gains, independence and objections to the amended Arbitration Rules were all given as reasons for the breakaway.

Following three months of announcements and counter-announcements, CIETAC Beijing suspended authorisation of both commissions. At the end of 2012, in an announcement dated December 31, it terminated this authorisation, forbidding the Shanghai and Shenzhen sub-commissions from using the CIETAC name and logo.

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