Competence of Court or Arbitration

Dispute resolution is always a matter of concern in Vietnam when it comes to the regulations and the effective enforcement of government authority.

The Council of Judges of the Supreme People’s Court issued Resolution 01/2014/NQ-HDTP in order to provide guidelines for the Law on Commercial Arbitration in Vietnam on dispute resolution process. Accordingly, the courts in Vietnam are permitted to deal with disputes which are agreed to be settled by arbitrators in the following cases: i) There is a Decision of the court on cancelling Arbitration’s Judgement, Council of Arbitration’s Decision on recognition agreement of parties. 2) The parties have agreed to settle their disputes at a specific arbitration center but it has stopped operating; 3) The arbitrators selected by the parties can not participate in solving disputes due to force majeure events; 4) The appointed arbitrator refuses to settle the dispute without an agreement on a replacement; 5) The proceedings rules selected by the parties are different from different from those of the selected arbitration center, and this center does not adopt rules of the other centers. 6) Consumers object to the arbitrator selection according to Articles 17 of the Law on Commercial Arbitration In the first four cases, the parties must not reach an alternative agreement on replacement. We are a Arbitration law firm in Vietnam with international standard, local expertise and strong international network. We focus on customers’ needs and provide clients with a high quality legal advice and services. For advice or services request, please contact us via email ant@antlawyers.vn, or call us +84 24 730 86 529.