The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) has announced the release of the 7th Edition of the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC Rules 2025”) which has come into force on 1 January 2025. The SIAC Rules 2025 will apply to arbitrations commenced from 1 January 2025 onwards, where the arbitration agreement provides that the arbitration will be conducted pursuant to the rules of the SIAC for the time being in force, even…
In CVV and others v CWB [2023] SGCA(I) 9, the Singapore Court of Appeal (“SGCA”) upheld the Singapore…
A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 No legislative amendments to the IAA or AA in Singapore International arbitration continues…
The draft 7th edition of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Rules was recently released for public consultation from 22 August 2023 to 21 November 2023.[1] According to the SIAC, the draft draws from the SIAC’s experience of administering more than 3,000 international cases under the SIAC Rules 2016, which involved parties from 106 jurisdictions across a range of seats and governing laws. The key proposed changes to the SIAC Rules The SIAC Gateway is…
The General Division of the High Court in CXG v CXI [2023] SGHC 244 held that a Singapore…
A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 No legislative amendments to the IAA or AA in Singapore International arbitration continues…
It is trite that an arbitral tribunal has no jurisdiction to decide any issue that has not been submitted to arbitration, and that the parts of an arbitral award that relate to such issues may be set aside by the court. In CJA v CIZ [2022] SGCA 41 (“CJA v CIZ”), the Singapore Court of Appeal (“SGCA”) held that a tribunal that made findings beyond the precise terms of the pleadings and submissions advanced by…
No training programme for first year arbitration associates is complete without an exploration of the advantages of arbitration…
The Court of Appeal in CAJ v. CAI [2021] SGCA 102 has upheld an earlier High Court decision…
A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 No Legislative Amendments to the IAA and AA in Singapore International arbitration continues to be governed by the International Arbitration Act (IAA), the Arbitration Act (AA) and the Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Act, to which there have been no legislative amendments in the past year. A.2 Institutions, rules and infrastructure The main arbitral institution in Singapore is SIAC, which is ranked second among the world’s top five arbitral institutions and…