Our firm has authored the Singapore chapter of the Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide: International Arbitration 2021. The guide provides the latest legal information on the impact of COVID-19, arbitral tribunals, challenges to jurisdiction …
In recent years, we have seen the Vietnam courts recognise a growing number of foreign arbitral awards while increasingly declining to set aside domestic arbitral awards. This signals a positive and pro-arbitration landscape in Vietnam, as well as …
It has been five years since Myanmar enacted its Arbitration Law 2016 to begin its journey of modernising its legal framework to promote arbitration as a viable mode of alternative dispute resolution in Myanmar. Whilst important strides have been taken …
In Ken Grouting Sdn Bhd v RKT Nusantara Sdn Bhd and another appeal [2020] MLJU 1901, the Malaysian Court of Appeal dealt with the issue of an arbitrator’s failure to deliver the arbitral award within the specified timeline, and whether this resulted in a loss of the arbitrator’s jurisdictional mandate.
While litigation and arbitration stand as separate dispute resolution mechanisms, the court system often plays an important part in the arbitral process, especially in the enforcement of arbitral awards. However, what is the scope of relief that a court may grant in the enforcement of an award?
In an arbitral award, the tribunal will ordinarily set out the grounds and reasons for its decision separately from its orders and reliefs. The part of the award in which the orders and reliefs are specifically enumerated is usually referred to as the dispositive portion of the award.
On 14 November 2019, the People’s Court of Hanoi passed Decision 11/2019/QD-PQTT to set aside an arbitral award under Vietnam’s Law on Commercial Arbitration 2010. The setting aside was based on three grounds.
Authored Publication – Our firm contributes an article titled “The Rise of Arbitration in the Asia-Pacific” to The Asia-Pacific Arbitration Review 2021, a Global Arbitration Review special report. Arbitration’s popularity in Asia can be explained by a multiple factors, including growth in the region …
Authored Publication – Our firm contributes an article titled “Malaysia: Federal Court Clarifies Limits of the Arbitration Act” to The Asia-Pacific Arbitration Review 2021, a Global Arbitration Review special report. The article explains the legal framework for arbitration in Malaysia.
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