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15 February 2024

Thank you June and Intellitrain, welcome CMA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Lunar New Year to all of our fellows, members, colleagues and friends of the SIArb who celebrate. 

May the Year of the Dragon bring you joy, success, good health and abundance! 

The Lunar New Year is customarily a time for reunions with loved ones, to give thanks and to celebrate new beginnings.  In this connection, this season marks a time of thanksgiving and transition for SIArb as we onboard a new secretariat team following the retirement of Intellitrain as SIArb's secretariat services provider. 

As a volunteer led organisation with an extremely busy annual programme, SIArb has been fortunate to have had the support of June Tan and her fantastic team at Intellitrain over the past decade.  Intellitrain has contributed as a true stakeholder of SIArb, seeing through milestone after milestone, including our 40th anniversary Gala Dinner in 2022, digitalising and taking our Fellowship and International Entry Courses to the next level during the unprecedented pandemic years, launching the Singapore Arbitration Journal and not least organising innumerable successful lectures, symposia, seminars and social events that our members and friends have enjoyed year after year.  Despite a challenging handover years ago, Intellitrain leaves SIArb on strong foundations with three consecutive years of growth and a solid financial position.

In these respects, June and her team over the years (including Joy, Lynn, Cheryl, Linh, Daphne, Shandy, Keerthi, Gabriel and others who have worked behind the scenes) will always be fondly remembered as part of the SIArb family.

June Tan collage

On behalf of SIArb, Council wishes to convey our utmost gratitude to June and her team (present and past) for their contributions to SIArb’s development and evolution.  Many of our members will have interacted with June at some point and we will all miss her. 

Sadly, the time has come to bid farewell to Intellitrain as secretariat, but we will continue to count them as friends and look forward to welcoming June and her team as special guests of SIArb on future occasions. 

Effective 15 February 2024, directors Allison Law and Beatrice Goh and their team at CMA International Consultants will be taking over in providing secretariat services for SIArb.  CMA was founded in 1995 and has over 25 years of experience in providing secretariat services to professionals-led associations as well as conference and event management.  Their contact details will be published on SIArb's website and LinkedIn page.  The new SIArb enquiries hotline will be +65 6336 4970.

2024 got off to a cracking start with two CPD events already, including the ever popular annual 'Developments in Singapore Arbitration' hybrid seminar by Professor Lawrence Boo and Delphine Ho, which again attracted over 100 registrations in Singapore and abroad. 

Given the transition in the secretariat team, Council foresees that we are likely to have to moderate the number of events organised by SIArb in the initial few months.  Thank you in advance for your understanding and patience as we welcome CMA to the SIArb family.  Our priority is to ensure a smooth transition so that our governance and cornerstone activities, in particular our membership and fellowship courses, will not be impacted.  We plan to pick up the pace of events again later in the year and will continue to hold our flagship events such as the SIArb Lecture, Annual Symposium and Annual Dinner.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me or any of the Council Members.  

Thank you and I look forward to seeing everyone at our upcoming events.

Tay Yu-Jin

President, SIArb 2023-2025
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

SIArb Newsletter Issue 43 (06 February 2023)

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February 2023 (Issue No.43)
 
the president's column

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE - February 2023

Happy Lunar New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai!  I hope everyone has had a great start to the year. 
 
The weeks since our 40th year anniversary events in late November have raced by.  To those of you who joined us for the 15th RAIF Conference, our annual Commercial Arbitration Symposium, and our 40th Anniversary gala dinner, thank you for your resounding support.  There was a strong feeling of camaraderie that week among Singapore-based members and friends and we were reminded of our growing constituencies of international members.  It is a tremendous encouragement that so many of you travelled to Singapore to attend. 

SIArb is the product of the cumulative efforts of its volunteers over the decades and has come a long way. This includes the outstanding work of our Secretariat team, led by June Tan, which has also made enduring contributions to our organisation for the recent third of its lifespan.  Our Secretariat has a tough job as it supports our ever growing committees of volunteers brimming with ideas.  They work tirelessly in the background and have helped our past and present Councils raise standards of our activities and events over the years.  During covid in particular, June and her team played a major role in ensuring that we continued to be able to deliver our annual training programmes in alternative formats and at a high standard.  Indeed, many of you have singled out June to me and others for praise and we should not forget the many less well known members of the team handling membership administration, finance, IT and marketing, whom we have also treated as part of the SIArb family.

As mentioned in the speeches at our 40th anniversary, SIArb expects to continue to pursue initiatives that seek to raise the value of association for our members.  We are committed to adding to and enhancing our...


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Tay Yu-Jin
President,
SIArb 2021-2023
ARTICLES

CASE DIGEST
By Bernard Lim, Princeton Digital Group; Joanna Seetoh and Renee Tan, Harry Elias Partnership LLP

In this issue, we report on the following decisions on arbitration released by the Singapore courts between August 2022 and September 2022:

  1. CSY v CSZ [2022] SGCA 43
  2. CEF and another v CEH [2022] SGCA 54 
  3. CJA v CIZ [2022] SGCA 41 

in the hot seat!










In this issue of our newsletter, we are pleased to have a colleague from Austria, Dr. Alice Meissner of Meissner & Passin Attorneys, share some insight into the European Chinese Arbitrators Association as well as her perspective on arbitration.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
Date
Event
16 February 2023
2 March 2023
March - April 2023
International Entry Course (IEC) 2023
View our Past and Upcoming events HERE.
 
RECENT EVENTS

SIArb "Beyond Arbitration: Global Perspectives" Lecture - Principle, Policy and Diplomacy in International Relations (6 September 2022)

Against a backdrop of escalating tensions in the United States-China relations and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the SIArb Beyond Lecture Series returned with a timely look at the topic of values and interests in International Relations on 6 September 2022. We were very privileged to have Mr Bilahari Kausikan, the current Chairman of the Middle East Institute and former diplomat, speak on the subject. The Institute’s President, Mr Tay Yu-Jin, chaired and moderated the lecture.

In an era of renewed major power competition, Mr Kausikan spoke on the vital importance of guarding against any foreign influence on public opinion especially...


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Webinar Series: Focus on Energy Disputes - Part 2: Renewables (28 July 2022)

The Institute organised the second of its two-part webinar series on Energy Disputes on 28 July 2022. Whilst the first webinar back in June 2022 covered conventional oil & gas disputes, this webinar touched on potential disputes that may arise in the renewables sector. Given the global energy transition to renewable energy sources away from fossil fuels and a move toward clean energy technologies, there was understandably much interest amongst our members in the topics covered under this webinar. Substantial growth in renewable capacity amongst states have, in turn, necessitated substantial investment in...

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SIArb Focus on Energy Disputes- Gas (21 June 2022)

SIArb’s webinar on the turmoil in the global gas markets, being the first of a two-part series focusing on the energy disputes, took place on 21 June 2022.

We had the pleasure of having an esteemed quartet involved as panellists for this webinar, with two economists and two senior legal practitioners, respectively Dr. Boaz Moselle and Luis Agosti (both from Compass Lexecon), and Dr. Johannes Willheim (of Jones Day) and Nick Lingard (of Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer), each of whom has had considerable experience...


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announcements

 New Members

The Institute extends a warm welcome to the following members:

Associates
  • Andrew Haynes
  • Reanne Toh
  • Yen Tsen Teh
  • Asiyah Binte Ahmad Arif
  • Wei Shing Ngo
  • Rashed Al Falasi
Members
  • Rahima Ayunan
  • Hyun Suk Kim
  • Avinash Pradhan
Fellows
  • Sushil Shankar
  • Sir Bernard Rix
  • Law Kong Hoi
  • Sebastian Teng
  • Abhishek Shekhar
  • Wee Hong Goh
  • Wei Hung Leong
  • Mimi Gao
  • Chao Yi Leong
  • Beng Chai Tay
  • Kimarie Cheang
  • Asanga Gunawansa
  • Colin Seow
  • Yunsoo Shin
  • Una Khng
  • Jundi Earl Deng
  • Guan Kee Teo
  • Shobna Chandran
  • Valerie Tan
View our Member Listing HERE.
Call for Contribution of Articles
The SIArb Newsletter is a publication of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators aimed to be an educational resource for members and associated organisations and institutions of higher learning. Readers of the newsletter are welcome to submit to the Secretariat at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. well-researched manuscripts of merit relating to the subject matter of arbitration and dispute resolution. Submissions should be unpublished works between 1,500 to 2,500 words and are subject to the review of the editorial team.
             Council (2022-2023)       Publications Committee (2022 & 2023)
President    
Tay Yu-Jin
Vice President
Andrew Pullen
Honorary Secretary
Ramesh Selvaraj
Honorary Treasurer
Tan Weiyi
Immediate Past President
Dinesh Dhillon
Council Members
Chia Chor Leong
Delphine Ho
Meera Rajah
Matthew Charles Shaw
​Toh Chen Han
Yeo Boon Tat


 
 
 
 
 
 

Chair
Toh Chen Han (2023)
Yeo Boon Tat (2022)
Committee Members
Luis Enrique Ames Peralta
Sanjay Anand
Khoo Jing Ling
Lau Chin Huat
Bernard Lim
Fabian Lim (2022)
Lim Hseng lu (2022)
Jenna Lim Ying (2022)
Ong Pei Ching
Adolf Peter
Ananya Pratap Singh
Meera Rajah
Daniel Seligman (2022)
Tham Wei Chern
Duncan Turner
Amos Wu (2022)
Yeo Boon Tat


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