My doctoral dissertation has been published as an e‑book and in print. Its title translates as ‘SICC or Arbitration? A Comparison of Proceedings in the Singapore International Commercial Court with the Advantages and Disadvantages of International Arbitration Proceedings’. It does what it says on the tin, so here’s just a bit of background.
May courts or arbitral tribunals engage in the amicable settlement of disputes between parties? More specifically, may a Singapore court or arbitral tribunal actively do so? What do the inquisitorial processes mentioned in the law have to do with it?
I have set out my thoughts in an article that the German Arbitration Journal (SchiedsVZ) has just published in its September/October 2023 issue.
Supplemental: Kluwer Arbitration Blog has published a summary of the article.
A lawyer shall not live by arbitration alone (at least not this one). As much as I enjoy arbitration, I also enjoy advising clients in an area of law that has, over time, become a professional hobbyhorse: economic administrative law. This is the area of law that empowers or requires government agencies to monitor or intervene in the private sector. The economic administrative law of Singapore, in German: das Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht von Singapur. Repeat after me.
I’ve had the website of dahm adr overhauled. This is where I arbitrate and mediate.
Please have a look: https://www.dahm.sg.
Singapore has adopted the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records, in a bid to get electronic bills of lading (eBOL) off the ground after previous efforts failed. The Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration has published the original English version of my article on the new law. Transportrecht, the transportation law journal, has published the German version.
A lot went down in 2020. Bought and renovated an HDB flat. Became a CIArb fellow and an SMC-accredited mediator. Oh, and I got married. A short, personal end-of-year review sorted by theme.
An arbitral award made by an emergency arbitrator sitting in Singapore is enforceable in Singapore. The law is clear on this.
However, the law is less clear on foreign emergency awards. Are they enforceable in Singapore?
I was working for Samuel Seow Law Corporation when its founder and managing director assaulted female staff members in his office last year. When videos of the incident surfaced a few days ago, my phone was on fire. A few sensationalists were fishing for gossip (wrong number, guys), but the majority had an actual desire to talk. For the first time, I couldn’t answer everyone who contacted me in time. That’s why I wrote this post.
After eight years of living in the Orchard area, and two years in Novena before that, I’ve moved to a more down-to-earth part of Singapore: Bugis. That once infamous district, which to this day retains its gruff character. I guess I was drawn to it to compensate for all these years in Atasland.
Priyageetha Dia has gilded Singapore with gold foil, again. And a lot of people have called her urban art intervention illegal, again. But what if she and her art had been on safe legal ground all along? What if it wasn’t so clear whether the removal of her golden flags was legal or not?
This is my speech at the first Computational Law & Blockchain Festival – Singapore Node on 17 March 2018. In it, I tried to explain what initial coin offerings are, why governments all over the world eye them curiously, and how governments regulate them – if they regulate them. I also questioned why brick and mortar governments regulate something so digital.
Last Friday we were celebrating the official opening of our new office, arts and entertainment law firm that we are. This is the speech I gave before the party took off.
Was Priyageetha Dia’s golden staircase art or vandalism? Wrong question, in my view. Something can be both. Just that this art wasn’t.
Here’s my piece on Singapore’s ratification of this Convention on Peter Bert’s dispute resolution blog.
Anfang 2015 wurde der Singapurische Internationale Handelsgerichtshof (Singapore International Commercial Court oder SICC) eröffnet. Das Gericht ist als Teil des singapurischen Supreme Court für internationale Handelssachen zuständig und vereint schiedsgerichtliche und gerichtliche Elemente. Singapur will damit seine Position als internationales Streitschlichtungszentrum ausbauen.
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