This led to several rulings and
some procedural wrangling, and ultimately a hearing before the Ontario Court of Appeal for its determination.
On the other hand, Chinese courts have been effective in regard to providing injunctive relief, and there has been relatively little
procedural wrangling with regard to the granting of injunctions in China compared to most other litigation.
Is this the beginning of a new era of judicial protectionism where the enforcement of decisions of courts of competent jurisdiction become bogged down in needless
procedural wrangling?
In my experience, in the instances where ADR was used, it prolonged and complicated the proceedings since the focus shifted to
procedural wrangling rather than dealing with the substantive issues.
This was attributed, much as it might have been at the U.N., to excessive
procedural wrangling or to the power of one permanent member.