…to government initiatives to promote Singapore as an international dispute resolution mecca. Anchored by Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the well-accoutered Maxwell Chambers, Singapore is attracting a growing share of…
…of their judgements abroad. The project has produced two conventions: The 2005 Choice of Courts Convention and the 2019 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements in Civil…
In Astro Nusantara International BV v PT Ayunda Prima Mitra [2012] SGHC 212, the Singapore High Court set out the available recourse against an international arbitration award made in Singapore….
…formally applicable as an international treaty to the ICSID Convention. First, not all Contracting States of the ICSID Convention are parties to the Vienna Convention. Secondly, the ICSID Convention was…
…the relevant dispute are party also to the Convention; in other cases the position is less clear (see Articles 30(3) and 30(4) of the Vienna Convention). Second, the Convention does…
The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention”) has its own scope – it states that it “shall apply to the recognition and enforcement…
…serious injustice. The most fundamental objectives of the Convention include ensuring uniform treatment of arbitral awards, and facilitating the effective enforcement of such awards, in the Convention’s Contracting States. Those…
…Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the “New York Convention”). The New York Convention obliges Myanmar’s Courts to give effect to contractual provisions which provide for disputes to be resolved by…
The obligation of contracting states to recognize arbitration agreements and refer the parties to arbitration is provided in Article II of the New York Convention 1958 (the ‘Convention’). This post…
…established by the Singapore Convention, highlighting the fact that the Convention introduces to mediation a characteristic that has long contributed to arbitration’s popularity: enforceability. The Singapore Convention –“in substance the…
India signed the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards, 1958, commonly known as the New York Convention (“the Convention”), on 10th June, 1958 and ratified it on…
…Awards under the New York Convention, Experience and Prospects, Papers presented at “The New York Convention Day”, 10 June 1998, United Nations Publication, 24 (1999) and it continues to be…
and Paul Tan, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP Short answer: Yes for some actions, but not all. Here is why. The Singapore International Commercial Court (“SICC”) was launched in January…
…had failed to pay these amounts. HKL began court proceedings in Singapore to recover these amounts. Under Section 6(2) of the Singapore International Arbitration Act (the “IAA”), the court can…
…in Singapore and Hong Kong. Indeed, until recently, Singapore went so far as to prohibit TPF for international arbitration proceedings, and Hong Kong did not expressly permit it. In both…
…had jurisdiction because the seat of the arbitration is Singapore, the proper law of the arbitration agreement is Singapore law, and hence the arbitration agreement is valid. Thereafter, the plaintiff…
…costs award. Disclosure Obligations Generally speaking, registered foreign lawyers and Singapore solicitors who are bound by Singapore’s Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules 2015 (Singapore PCR) must disclose, to the…
…Vienna Convention and numerous citations of previous awards. It is under debate whether the interpretation Tribunals are making of the Vienna Convention is right or wrong. But it is undeniable…
…the meaning of the Convention between Outokumpu and GE. The Court reasoned that “[p]rivate parties…cannot contract around the Convention’s requirement that the parties actually sign an agreement to arbitrate their…
…rely on Article 72 of the ICSID Convention to decline jurisdiction over a claim filed after Venezuela had noticed it would denounce the ICSID Convention but before the 6-month period…
…a PCA tribunal seated in Singapore released its final award on costs. It is this final PCA award that the plaintiffs are seeking to enforce against Lesotho in Singapore. The…
…into force of the RCEP. The Singapore Mediation Convention (the “Singapore Convention”) entered into force on 12 September 2020, prompting contributors to further consider its potential impacts, particularly on the…
…of the New York Convention.[8] This is possibly so because a majority of jurisdictions apply some sort of limitation period to proceedings under the New York Convention.[9] But, even if…
…Convention).6) Article XII(2) of the New York Convention. Tonga’s accession to the Convention is subject to the “commercial reservation” qualification provided for under Article I(3) of the Convention, whereby the…
