Professor Anthony Dicks QC
Born: 1936
Call: 1961 (Inner Temple, 1965 Hong Kong, 1971 Brunei)
Silk: 1994
Contact
Essex Court Chambers
24 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3EG
Tel: 020 7813 8000 Fax: 020 7813 8080
adicks@essexcourt.net
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AboutProfessor Anthony Dicks is primarily engaged in practice as an expert on Chinese law. He is Emeritus Professor of Chinese Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has reasonably fluent reading of Chinese as used in traditional and modern legal texts, documents, newspapers, and some spoken Mandarin; French. He has been in practice in Hong Kong as a Barrister since 1968 (full-time 1974-1994) and as arbitrator since 1975. Resumed practice in London at the beginning of 1995. He was nominated by the Securities and Futures Commission of the Hong Kong Government as an arbitrator for disputes arising out of the listings of Chinese companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange which are referred to arbitration in Peking, 1993. He has had about 50 appointments as arbitrator since 1975 (including 6 appointments by the High Court in Hong Kong, two appointments by the International Chamber of Commerce, one appointment by the London Court of International Arbitration and eight appointments by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission), and one appointment as a mediator.
Professor Dicks has also had extensive experience as an advocate in litigation before the High Court and Court of Appeal in Hong Kong between 1974 and 1984 and some experience of Hong Kong and International Chamber of Commerce Arbitrations; since 1994 he has concentrated on advisory work, with occasional involvement in advocacy, usually in disputes over jurisdiction and choice of forum, or conflicts of law; also giving evidence in foreign courts as to the law of Hong Kong.
His experience in Chinese law includes advising, furnishing opinions and giving expert evidence both by affidavit and in person to courts in Hong Kong, England, Canada, Australia and the United States on a wide range of questions arising both under the law of the People's Republic of China and under the laws of other regimes in East and South-East Asia in which older forms of Chinese law apply, including various commercial and credit transactions, maritime matters, company law, tax, property rights and foreign claims, inheritance and family matters of all kinds; advising as to the various public and private international law implications of these matters (including giving extensive advice to the Foreign Compensation Commission in relation to the China Claims, 1988-90); advising as to the conduct of arbitration, litigation and marine casualty investigations in or concerning China; and acting as an arbitrator in cases involving China and Chinese law.
Education
- MA, LLB, Trinity College, Cambridge
Languages
Reasonably fluent reading knowledge of Chinese as used in both traditional and modern legal texts, documents, newspapers, and some spoken Mandarin; French
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