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Case Update: Seat of Arbitration and Implied Choice of Governing Law of Arbitration Agreement

[Update: the paragraphs on the Singapore High Court’s analysis of the arbitration clause and its implications has been updated to more closely reflect the language at paragraph [17] of the Singapore High Court’s decision.]  A party may rely on a valid … Continue reading

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LexisNexis Newsletter – Bills of Exchange and Arbitration Clauses

Our short article on the Singapore High Court case of Piallo GmbH v Yafriro International Pte Ltd, [2013] SGHC 260 has been featured on LexisNexis Newsletter June 2014 (Issue 1). The article focuses on the Singapore court’s decision on the … Continue reading

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Arbitrability of intra-corporate disputes

Arbitration is a consensual process. It is axiomatic that parties may only arbitrate those disputes that they have agreed to submit to arbitration. In some cases, after a dispute has arisen, parties to that dispute may agree to refer the … Continue reading

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Case Update: (1) Governing law of the arbitration agreement determines scope of arbitrability; (2) Disputes on bills of exchange fall within arbitration clause

We had previously discussed the case of Piallo GmbH v Yafriro International Pte Ltd, [2013] SGHCR 20 (“Yafriro (AR)”). The issue was whether a claim on certain dishonoured cheques paid pursuant to a Distributorship Agreement could avoid a stay of court … Continue reading

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Can a claim on dishonoured cheque(s) avoid a stay for arbitration?

In the recent case of Piallo GmbH v Yafriro International Pte Ltd, [2013] SGHCR 20, a stay of proceedings was sought by the defendant, Yafriro, on the basis of an arbitration clause in a Distributorship Agreement between the parties. The … Continue reading

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Case Update: Singapore High Court exercises discretion not to grant stay in domestic arbitration

In a previous post, we discussed Singapore’s dual arbitration regime and, in particular, whether a reference that a domestic arbitration will be governed by the ICC rules sufficed to exclude the parties’ right of appeal on a question of law … Continue reading

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