If the title of this blog scared you, it was meant to.
In “The Future of the Professions,” authors Richard and Daniel Susskind, who are leading experts in law and tech, look at the impact of the…
The Singapore Court of Appeal (“CA”) recently handed down CBX and anor v CBZ and ors [2021] SGCA(I) 3 (“CBX”), setting aside, exceptionally, the awards. Significantly, the law was clarified, to a…
Like many other industries, the field of international arbitration has adjusted to the Covid-19 pandemic. Hearings have gone virtual; arbitrators, counsel and experts have adapted to working from…
In the recent decision of AnAn Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd v VTB Bank (Public Joint Stock Company) [2020] SGCA 33 ("AnAn"), the Singapore Court of Appeal found that when a debtor challenges a winding…
It is often said that flexibility is a cornerstone of international arbitration and that the tribunal (typically in consultation with the parties) is the master of how the proceedings are to be…
Readers of this blog will need no reminding that, in the Queen Mary-White & Case 2015 International Arbitration Survey, the seats of Hong Kong and Singapore were amongst the top five most preferred…
In a 2014 speech delivered in Sydney entitled "Commercial Courts and International Arbitration – Competitors or Partners?", Michael Hwang SC, referring to the New York Convention on the Recognition…
for YSIAC
In an age of ever-increasing complexity, where your watch can open your garage and answer your phone (yes, the Apple watch can really do that), many of us in the international arbitration…
The case of Perenco Ecuador Limited v Republic of Ecuador, ICSID Case No. ARB/08/6 (Decision, 12 September 2014), is one of a number of investor-state disputes to arise from the Ecuadoran government…
