Khoo Yingxiang and Choo Jin Hua of the MOH Holdings’ Healthcare Mediation Unit discuss the benefits of using mediation to resolve medical disputes.

Last year, the total quantum of disputed sums that came under mediation at the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC) was a record high of over $2.7 billion.

IMDA is setting the standards as a criteria for media grants and funding for Public Service Broadcast content.

A tripartite standard which aims to encourage fair and progressive workplaces that better support media freelancers was officially launched on Wednesday (Nov 29).

The new Employment Claims Tribunal is designed to provide a speedy, low-cost forum for parties to resolve their employment disputes, according to the State Courts.

Media freelancers and firms in Singapore can now receive subsidies for mediations of disputes relating to work done by freelancers.

Speaking at a Work Plan Seminar, Judicial Commissioner Valerie Thean, Presiding Judge of the Family Justice Courts emphasised the Courts’ role in meeting the needs of, and ensuring ready access to justice for families in Singapore.

Singapore Mediation Centre has recorded the highest number of matters filed in its 20-year history.

Commercial mediation work in Singapore has been given more legislative muscle, as Parliament yesterday passed the Mediation Bill, one of two bills tabled to strengthen the Republic’s position as an international centre for dispute resolution.

Ms Dorcas Quek is a Principal Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre. In today’s Straits Times, she provides a balanced view of when mediation and other alternative dispute resolution schemes may be the ‘appropriate’ dispute resolution method for telcos and consumers in Singapore.