By Gilbert Samberg ( November 15, 2018, 1:07 PM EST) -- The Hong Kong International Arbitration Center, or HKIAC, has promulgated a new set of administered arbitration rules, or AAR, effective Nov. 1, 2018. Among those rules are Articles 27-30 concerning the HKIAC's powers to join additional parties in an arbitration, to consolidate arbitrations, to consolidate related claims in a single arbitration and to coordinate related unconsolidated arbitral proceedings. Those powers, which the HKIAC can exercise without the consent of the parties to any bilateral arbitration agreement, are not trivial; among other things, they arguably institutionalize pathways to collective or opt-in class arbitration proceedings....
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