In DRO V DRP [2025] SGHC 255, the High Court held that a failure to satisfy the preconditions to arbitration is a matter of admissibility, rather than jurisdiction.
In these decisions, the PRC Supreme Court considered whether agreements were formed on a digital platform or on email, and whether arbitration clauses applied.
In DMZ v DNZ [2025] SGCA 52, the Singapore Court of Appeal considered whether the courts could intervene in a procedural decision made by SIAC in an ongoing arbitration.
Arbitration agreements will typically state that any dispute “arising out of or in connection with” the underlying contract is to be resolved by arbitration. However, what are the limits on the expansive scope intended by this phrase?
Where the Court has granted recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings against a company, an automatic stay and suspension of actions or proceedings against that company will arise. However, may a third party pursue an arbitration against the company?
Where a beneficiary fails to appreciate the distinction between its substantive dispute under the underlying contract and the separate issue of its right to be paid under an unconditional on-demand bond, it risks inadvertently turning its unconditional bond into a conditional bond.
Over the past decades, India has seen arbitration grow in prominence as a preferred dispute resolution mechanism. Where the Government of India is party to a dispute, however, the advantages of arbitration have not always materialised.
In DGE v DGF [2024] SGHC 107, the claimant DGE advanced eight grounds for setting aside an arbitral award in the defendant DGF’s favour, that the photovoltaic modules (solar panels) supplied by DGE were inherently defective.
The Asian International Arbitration Centre (“AIAC”) regularly revises its arbitration rules to keep up-to-date with modern arbitration practice.