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PUBLISHED | OCT 16, 2018, 5:00 AM SGT
K.C. Vijayan | Senior Law Correspondent
SIAC ties up with Peking Uni, Chinese body to promote training and increase collaboration.
Singapore’s reputation as a global arbitration hub has received a further boost, with the signing of two memoranda of underststanding (MOU) […]
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12 October 2018
The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) to promote international arbitration as a preferred method […]
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13 September 2018 | By Oliver Gayner
Dispute finance, in its modern form, originated in Australia in the mid-1990s following the enactment of legislation permitting insolvency practitioners to enter into contracts to finance litigation characterized as company property. The rise of litigation funding in Australia […]
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24 July 2018 | Seow Bei Yi
A new United Nations (UN) treaty on mediation is to be named after Singapore, a move that legal experts say will boost the country’s status as an international hub for resolving business disputes.
Called the Singapore Convention on […]
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24 August 2018
The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) to promote international arbitration as a preferred method of dispute […]
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January 9 2018
This blog post was first published on the Practical Law arbitration blog.
The scope of arbitrators’ powers to order summary procedures is open to debate. Any application for summary measures requires careful consideration of the possible benefits to be gained from a successful application on […]
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January 15, 2018 | Author: Tom Yates and Georgiana Andrews
Overview
Following debate within the arbitration community regarding the proper scope of the role of a tribunal secretary and a series of challenges to arbitral awards based on the […]
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January 17, 2018 | Author: Tom Yates and Daniel Relton
1. Summary
In Company 1 v. Company 2 and another[1], the English court confirmed its jurisdiction to make orders, including granting interim injunctions, in support of foreign seated arbitrations. While the […]
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PUBLISHED JAN 9, 2018, 5:13 PM SGT | Seow Bei Yi
SINGAPORE – The Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) has heard 17 cases on subjects ranging from construction to banking and finance since it was established in 2015, said Senior Minister of State for Law […]
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USA | December 15 2017
The use of outside capital in the legal industry is becoming increasingly widespread. Indeed, our latest research (http://www.burfordcapital.com/blog/2016-litigation-finance-survey/) shows that use of litigation finance increased four-fold between 2013 and 2016. And yet, many lawyers and clients still lack direct experience with a […]