The Supreme Court and the SMC have come together to launch the SGUnited Mediation Initiative to refer suitable cases in the Supreme Court for mediation at no charge to parties.
The Supreme Court and the SMC have come together to launch the SGUnited Mediation Initiative to refer suitable cases in the Supreme Court for mediation at no charge to parties.
Business associations in Singapore have formed a Fair Tenancy Framework Industry Committee (FTFIC) to address the “growing imbalance” in the relationship between institutional landlords and tenants as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to severely hurt businesses.
Belarus believes that the convention will have a positive impact on the entire system of international commercial mediation, including the work of international courts and arbitration.
Mediation is a process of handling conflict in which parties come together and try to settle their issues by talking. The parties are assisted by a mediator who takes up the role of the neutral in facilitative mediation.
SMC has issued Supplementary Rules for Electronic Adjudication Lodgement (2nd Edition, 25 April 2020) which provide for the submission of accompanying documents of more than 50MB.
Mediation is essentially a process of discovery in which a skillful mediator can allow the parties’ fixed positions to coalesce into something novel where something quite unexpected can emerge, something beyond what is imaginable.
SMC has issued Supplementary Rules for Electronic Adjudication Lodgment which provide for the electronic lodgment of documents, telegraphic transfer of Fees, electronic service of documents and Adjudication Conferences.
Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon has updated on the various precautionary measures the Singapore Judiciary has put in place to ensure the continuity of court operations and services.
Qatar is third country to ratify UN convention named after Singapore; Fiji did so last month
On 25 February 2020, Singapore and Fiji became the first two countries to deposit at the United Nations Headquarters their instruments of ratification of the Singapore Convention, more formally known as the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation.