Region: Singapore

Speakers at GAR Live Singapore today reflected on a year that saw a “seismic shift” in the country’s attitude to third-party funding – which went from a mere possibility 12 months ago to a reality embedded in statute.

07 June 2017

A major change of the past few years has been Singapore’s emergence as a hub for investment treaty arbitration. Speakers at GAR Live Singapore considered its role in this regard, with particular reference to the “political hot potato” of the Sanum v Laos case.

07 June 2017

Singapore’s courts have been less busy than usual supervising commercial arbitrations this year, GAR Live delegates heard today – but there have been a wave of applications on natural justice grounds and from overseas counsel wanting to appear before the courts in arbitration-related matters.

07 June 2017

The European Court of Justice has found that an EU trade agreement providing for investor-state dispute settlement must be ratified individually by member states – a ruling that one arbitration practitioner says has effectively “destroyed” the EU’s hopes for a new generation of trade deals that include investment protection.

16 May 2017

In what is understood to be a “one-off” development, Toby Landau QC has become the first English silk in Singapore’s history to be admitted to its local bar.

12 May 2017

A group of South African mining investors cannot serve notice of their leave to enforce a costs award on Lesotho except through diplomatic channels, a Singaporean judge has ruled - noting the “potentially huge repercussions” if a state were served incorrectly.

09 May 2017

As Lesotho faces a second arbitration brought by South African mining investors, the claimants have won leave to enforce a costs award from an earlier proceeding in Singapore – but have been blocked from serving notice on the state except through diplomatic channels because of state immunity law.

16 March 2017

The head of DLA Piper’s Asia-Pacific international arbitration group Yu-Jin Tay has left the firm after four years to establish an Asia practice for Mayer Brown JSM in Singapore.

03 March 2017

The Singapore International Arbitration Centre has unveiled the latest leadership committee for its young practitioners group as the city state celebrates the start of the year of the Rooster.

26 January 2017

UPDATED. Singapore’s parliament yesterday passed two bills – one proposing amendments to introduce third party funding for litigation and arbitration and another designed to give teeth to the mediation process – while Hong Kong has recently published its promised bill on funding.

11 January 2017