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Category Archives: Arbitration
Another record-breaking year for the Singapore International Arbitration Centre
On 7 March 2018, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) announced the release of its 2017 Annual Report (the “Annual Report”). The Annual Report sets out detailed statistics for yet another record-breaking year for SIAC in terms of both new … Continue reading
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Costs and Duration: A Comparison of the HKIAC, LCIA, SCC and SIAC Studies
by Wei Ming Tan, Shriram Jayakumar and Jolyn Khoo* Introduction As cross-border contracts involving multi-jurisdictional parties become the norm, more players have entered the arena to offer legal services for parties opting to resolve their disputes by way of international … Continue reading
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SGCA grants Senior Indian Advocate ad hoc admission to argue arbitration-related applications
by Wei Ming Tan, Kartik Singh & Aaron Yoong* Introduction In a reversal of the High Court’s 2017 decision, Singapore’s Court of Appeal (“CA”) recently granted unprecedented ad hoc admission for Harish Salve (“Mr Salve”) – a Senior Advocate of … Continue reading
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Singapore passes bill for Singapore International Commercial Court to hear arbitration-related matters
By Wei Ming Tan & Kartik Singh* Introduction On 9 January 2018, Parliament passed the Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Bill 2017 (the “Amendment”) giving the Singapore International Commercial Court (“SICC”) jurisdiction to hear international commercial arbitration-related court proceedings. The … Continue reading
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Towards reducing the complexity, cost and time of arbitral proceedings: SIAC’s proposal on cross-institution consolidation
by Wei Ming Tan and Pradeep Nair Introduction On 19 December 2017, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) announced its proposal on cross-institution co-operation for the consolidation of international arbitral proceedings (“SIAC’s proposal”). SIAC’s proposal, which is the brainchild of … Continue reading
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Singapore High Court reaffirms its power to stay court proceedings in favour of arbitration
Introduction Can a non-party to an arbitration agreement apply to stay court proceedings in favour of arbitration? Would it make a difference if arbitration proceedings had not yet commenced? These were some of the questions before the Singapore High Court … Continue reading
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Heartronics Corp v EPI Life: Singapore High Court makes landmark ruling on multi-tier dispute resolution clauses
Introduction Should multi-tier dispute resolution clauses be treated as a series of discrete dispute resolution agreements, or regarded as a unitary dispute resolution mechanism? When will the court find an arbitration agreement to be “inoperative” or “incapable of being performed” … Continue reading
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Singapore High Court affirms principles on when arbitral tribunal is deemed to exceed jurisdiction
When will an arbitral tribunal be deemed to have exceeded its jurisdiction? In the recent decision of Quanzhou Sanhong Trading Limited Liability Co Ltd v ADM Asia-Pacific Trading Pte Ltd [2017] SGHC 199 involving the enforcement of a foreign arbitral … Continue reading
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SGCA recognises asymmetric arbitration clause giving only one party right to elect to arbitrate
Introduction Is a dispute resolution clause that gives only one party the right to elect to arbitrate a dispute a valid arbitration agreement? The Singapore Court of Appeal (the “Court”) answered this question in the affirmative recently in Wilson Taylor … Continue reading
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Updates on Third Party Funding in Singapore and developments in Mediation
Third Party Funding We covered the key proposed changes under the Civil Law (Amendment) Bill 2016 (“Funding Bill“) in our earlier post, which provides a framework for third party funding in Singapore. It will currently apply to international arbitration proceedings … Continue reading
