The following article is taken from The Straits Times. Click here to go to the original article.
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) […]
The following article is taken from the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). Click here to go to the original article.
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 […]
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Singapore Branch is pleased to announce that the Honourable Justice Quentin Loh has accepted the Branch’s invitation to be its Patron.
Justice Quentin Loh is a judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore and the Judge in Charge of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC).
A highly respected and distinguished arbitration practitioner before his elevation […]
The following article is taken from CIArb (London). Click here to go to the original article.
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 […]
The following article is taken from the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). Click here to go to the original article.
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 […]
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) is the world’s leading professional membership body for arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR). CIArb promotes the use of ADR internationally through 15,000 professionally qualified members in over 133 countries.
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Singapore Branch would like to welcome the following new members in Singapore.
Fellow
Ms. Alexis Jingsi Ang
Dr. Jean Ho
Mr. Chee Meng […]
The Singapore Branch held its 9th AGM on 30 April 2019.
At the AGM, Chou Sean Yu who presided as Chairman took the meeting through the Branch’s Directors’ Report for 2018/2019 which set out details of the membership, events organised, courses run and other activities of the Branch from April 2018 to March 2019.
Several events were held in the year […]
The following article is taken from Lexology. Click here to go to the original article.
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 […]
The following article is taken from the Global Arbitration News – A news platform moderated by Baker McKenzie. Click here to go to the original article.
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 […]