The Scope of Singapore’s Cross-Border Insolvency Law: The Ascentra case In Ascentra Holdings, Inc (in official liquidation) and Ord v SPGK Pte Ltd [2023] 2 SLR 421, Singapore’s Court of Appeal (‘CA’) clarified the scope of Singapore’s cross-border insolvency law. It held that Singapore’s adapted version of UNCITRAL’s Model Law […]
A new visa route, ‘Appendix Graduate’ (also informally being referred to as the ‘Post Study Work’ visa) is due to commence on 01 July 2021. This route is designed for foreign national students who wish to remain in the UK following the successful completion of their studies, so that they […]
Clarifications Provided on Setting Aside an Arbitral Award under Singapore Law. A party dissatisfied with an arbitration award can apply to court to set aside the award. The recent Singapore High Court decision in CAI v CAJ [2021] SGHC 21 dealt with two of the grounds for setting aside an award: […]
Seeking corrections to an arbitral award- Implications for extending time to set aside awards under Singapore law On receiving an arbitration award a party can apply to the tribunal for a correction of the award. Doing so can entitle it to additional time for applying to set aside the award. […]
The difficulty in challenging an arbitral tribunal’s findings on the effect of decisions in earlier proceedings before Singapore’s court Due to the complex nature of certain contracts or transactions, or because of the choices made by the parties, a dispute can be dealt with in more than one forum. If […]
IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDIATING INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL DISPUTES (UPDATE) On 12 September 2020, the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, also known as the Singapore Convention (‘Convention’) came into force. The Convention opened for signatures just over a year ago, on 7 August 2019, and very rapidly gained […]
