The second half of 2024 is shaping up to be a consequential time for employment rules in Singapore. Not only will the Workplace Fairness Legislation (WFL) be introduced in Parliament, but guidelines for the inclusion of...more
The Singapore Court of Appeal held on 2 May 2024 in Voltas Ltd v York International Pte Ltd that (1) a conditional award can be a final award; and (2) following the issuance of a final award and absent an express reservation...more
In Shopee Singapore Private Limited v Lim Teck Yong [2024] SGHC 29 (Shopee v Lim), the Singapore High Court (HC) heard and dismissed an application by an international ecommerce platform, Shopee, to restrain its former...more
The Singapore government recently accepted the Tripartite Committee on Workplace Fairness’s final set of recommendations on key aspects of the proposed Workplace Fairness Legislation (WFL) that is slated for passage in the...more
In a recent case before the Singapore High Court, the judge clarified that parties intending to enforce interim measures granted in Singapore seated arbitrations under Section 12(6) of the International Arbitration Act 1994...more
The Court of Appeal of Singapore considered that a “manifestly incoherent” arbitral award would mean parties have not been accorded a fair hearing and a remission would not be appropriate where it is objectively assessed that...more
The still evolving US sanctions (as well as the EU and now also separate UK sanctions) continue to challenge Russia-related business. The sanctions frameworks are complex, changing, and, at times, inconsistent as well as...more
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Guidance from the General Division of the Singapore High Court on the extent to which the protections afforded by the statutory moratoria for schemes of arrangement conflict with the ability of maritime claimants to protect...more
Commercial parties, when entering into a contractual relationship, will have to address three key issues when negotiating the dispute resolution (or jurisdiction) clause. First, whether to resolve those disputes by...more
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