Olga Boltenko and Priscilla Lua, Author at Kluwer Arbitration Blog

The SIAC Rules 2016: a watershed in the history of arbitration in Singapore

Olga Boltenko and Priscilla Lua (Clifford Chance Asia (in formal law alliance in Singapore between Clifford Chance Pte Ltd and Cavenagh Law LLP))/July 12, 2016July 11, 2016 /Leave a comment

Following the long-awaited release – on 1 July 2016 – of SIAC’s new arbitration rules (“SIAC Rules 2016”), practitioners in and outside of Asia have enthusiastically supplied a flurry of commentary and client briefings on this historic moment in the SIAC arbitration. Descriptive or analytical, the commentaries are unanimous in positing that changes in Singapore’s…

Arbitration Agreements, Courts, Singapore, Singapore International Arbitration Centre, UNCITRAL Model Law

Prakash J of the Singapore High Court decides the arbitration “chicken and egg” dilemma

Olga Boltenko and Priscilla Lua (Clifford Chance Asia (in formal law alliance in Singapore between Clifford Chance Pte Ltd and Cavenagh Law LLP))/September 21, 2015 /Leave a comment

By a recent judgment in Malini Ventura v Knight Capital Pte Ltd and others [2015] SGHC 225 (“Malini“), the Singapore High Court affirmed its commitment to the primacy of arbitration even in situations where the existence of the arbitration agreement is in question. In Malini, Prakash J decided that prima facie existence of an arbitration…