…final and binding award under the New York Convention. This will depend on the provisions of the arbitration laws in the relevant country and the approach taken by the national…
Summer fun Dear Readers, you may have noticed the dearth of recent posts, for which we make no excuses. It is late summer for the northern hemisphere contributors. At this…
…is not a signatory to the New York Convention owning to its subtle status. To enforce a mainland China’s award or civil judgment in Taiwan, a party has to refer…
…Convention awards before the Dubai Courts, these may – out of all fairness – have significantly diminished, on which see my various reporting in this Blog, most recently in Case…
…of the Singapore International Mediation Institute to set world-class mediation standards in Singapore, as well as the Singapore International Mediation Centre to administer international mediations. The Singapore Courts are also…
…having challenged the existence of the arbitration agreement between the parties, had refused to participate. After the award was rendered, Yukos applied for its enforcement in Russia, Singapore, Ireland and…
…by the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention”), the ECT, and the SCC Rules. In other words, the Pecherskyi Court treated the EA…
…challenge under the Arbitration Law (which match the terms of the New York Convention). But the Courts of the seat of the arbitration were the Courts of Dubai. It is…
…“legal consistency and predictability…would be more pronounced in a pluri or multilateral context” (p. 150). The Report also cites multilateral instruments like the UN Transparency Convention as as offering further…
…enforcement by reference to any international enforcement instruments that were in place (e.g. the New York Convention, as confirmed by the Dubai Court of Cassation’s ruling in in Case No….
…of those agreements involve developed economies, the UNCTAD report notes that Chile, Costa Rica, Korea, Peru, and Singapore have been “actively concluding pre-establishment” agreements. In a 2013 joint statement, China…
…these developments). By way of reminder, Banyan Tree Corporate Pte Ltd, a company incorporated in Singapore and specialising in the management and operation of tourist resorts, (“Banyan”) applied to the…
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…
…enforcement instruments, including in particular the GCC and Riyadh Conventions (see the GCC Convention for the Execution of Judgments, Delegations and Judicial Notifications and the Riyadh Convention on Judicial Cooperation…
In AKN v ALC [2015] SGCA 18, the Singapore Court of Appeal (“SGCA”) partially allowed a set of three appeals against a High Court decision to set aside a SIAC…
…been especially true for newer and regional institutions. For example, several regional institutions, including centers in Milan, Singapore, Cairo, Poland, Slovenia and Latvia, have adopted codes of ethics for arbitrators….
…6.2 million square kilometres, or about 8,700 times the size of Singapore or 5,600 times that of Hong Kong. The region produces over 60% of Russia’s gold, 90% of its…
…of Postova bank’s bond acquisition in the light of the Greece-Slovakia BIT and the ICSID Convention. According to art. 1 of the Greece-Slovakia BIT “investment means every kind of asset…
…some of the earliest states to ratify the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in 1959 (Egypt, Syria, Morocco) and many other Arab states…
…Working Group II should start work on an international convention for the enforcement of mediated settlement agreements. Among the countries that will be deciding the fate of the proposed convention,…
…composed of Andrés Jana of Bofill Mir & Alvarez Jana (Santiago), June Junghye Yeum of Clyde & Co LLP (Singapore and New York), David Brynmor Thomas of Thirty Nine Essex…
…the recognition of arbitral awards, it appears that Article V of the New York Convention (or Article V of the Panama Convention) applies (Article 425 of the Ecuadorian Constitution allows…
…the meaning of the New York Convention” and that “a national court to which application is made for annulment of an arbitration award must grant that application if it considers…
…made in Singapore, by confirming that interim awards made under Singapore’s International Arbitration Act (IAA) are final and binding. The Court of Appeal’s decision is also significant as it confirms…
