At the opening of the legal year in Singapore on 5 January 2015, the Singapore International Commercial Court ("SICC") was officially launched. In the words of Chief Justice Menon, the SICC is…
The Singapore International Mediation Centre ("SIMC") was officially launched on 5 November 2014. Set up following the recommendations of a Working Group chaired by Edwin Glasgow CBE QC and George…
The US District Court for the District of Vermont, part of the Second Circuit that also embraces New York and Connecticut, recently compelled a Canadian businessman (Mr. Kastner) to arbitrate his…
As has been discussed previously on this blog, the recast Brussels Regulation contains a number of important clarifications to the arbitration exception. Paragraph 3 of Recital 12 and Article 73(2)…
Whilst many institutional rules now contain provisions which expressly address the complex issue of consolidation, the recently revised rules of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (the …
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On 13 March 2014, Thailand's Central Administrative Court annulled an arbitration award in the case between Hong Kong-based Hopewell Holding and the Thai Ministry of Transport ("MoT")…
On 29 April 2014, the French Cour de cassation made a decision on the criteria a multi-tiered dispute resolution clause ("multi-tiered clause") should meet to render claims inadmissible if…
The debate regarding the extent to which most favoured nation (‘MFN’) clauses in bilateral investment treaties (‘BITs’) can expand the scope of application of such treaties is a well-established and…
In further nod to the non-interventionist and pro-arbitration stance of the Singapore courts, the Singapore Court of Appeal in BLC and ors v. BLB and anor [2014] SGCA 40 ("the BLC decision") reversed…
