Commercial Arbitration Law in Asia and the Pacific edited by Professor Kenneth R. Simmonds, Brian Hill, and Sigvard Jarvin

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Commercial Arbitration Law in Asia and the Pacific, edited by Professor Kenneth R. Simmonds, Brian Hill and Sigvard Jarvin. Published by ICC Publishing, Paris, and Oceana Publications, New York , (1987, v and 233 pp., Commentaries, 295 pp., Source Materials, Incl. Introduction and Acknowledgments). Hardback. Price $85 (US). This regional expoundation of the commercial arbitration laws of 14 selected countries in Asia and the Pacific is a further stage in the Arbitration Throughout The World series initiated by the ICC in 1981. The countries included are Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The text is divided into two general parts. The first contains a brief commentary on the commercial arbitration laws of each country, provided predominantly by national experts. The object is to provide a succinct, essential and non-technical descriptive statement, with emphasis on the practical rather than the jurisprudential. Each commentary follows a preordained structure, giving the various commentaries a visible discipline and order which the reader with little time for armchair browsing will …