About this Seminar:-

Recent developments in England have shown the Court’s enthusiasm to throw the net wide in the fight against fraud (the recent Ablyazov litigation) but otherwise to be more restrictive in respect to piercing the corporate veil (Petrodel –v- Prest) and Non-Cause of Action Defendants (Mahakam). The talk will consider these recent developments and applications of some of them in Singapore (notably in Manuchar Steel Hong Kong Limited –vStar Pacific Line Pte Ltd).

Seminar Programme:- 

About the Speakers: 

Duncan Matthews QC is a specialist advocate with a broad practice in international and domestic commercial dispute resolution. He advises and acts in English Court proceedings at all higher court levels and overseas and has a large arbitration practice primarily as counsel, though also as arbitrator, both in England and abroad, institutional and ad hoc. He has recently been extensively engaged as lead defence Counsel in the substantial and leading case of Mukhtar Ablyazov litigation in London and overseas, reflecting his wide experience both in heavy litigation and in major commercial disputes. He has also recently been engaged in a number of heavy share-holder/JV arbitration disputes in a variety of jurisdictions. With a background steeped in international trade and carriage of goods, including shipping, shipbuilding and commodities, in which he continues to be heavily involved, his practice has expanded to include banking and financial disputes, joint venture and shareholder and partnership disputes, energy and on- and off-shore oil and gas drilling and related disputes, insurance and reinsurance. He has just won The Legal 500 award for “International Arbitration Silk of the Year”. 

Sara Masters QC specialises in all areas of commercial law. She has a particular interest in jurisdictional disputes, including jurisdictional issues in arbitration and in private international law and conflcits of law. She also has extensive experience in insurance and reinsurance, sale of goods, shipping (including ship-building and ship sale disputes) and commodities, aviation, construction, energy and European Union law, particularly competition law. She has appeared in the High Court, the CAT, the Court of Appeal, the House of Lords, and the Privy Council and before the European Court of Justice and before the DIFC Courts. She also appears frequently before arbitrators in a broad range of disputes both in the UK and abroad. She accepts appointments as an arbitrator both in the UK and abroad and has a wide experience both of institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, and is also a CEDR accredited mediator. She is appointed to the SCMA (Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration) panel of arbitrators and is also a member of the CIETAC panel. Sara is Chairman of the North American Committee of COMBAR. She also sits on the Bar Council's Legal Services Committee.  

About the Chairperson:

Leslie Chew SC is a practicing lawyer of more than 26 years. After practicing at the Bar for 26 years, Leslie was appointed a District Judge in 2007 and Senior District Judge in 2009. After spending almost 7 years in the judiciary, he returned to private practice in May 2014. He was appointed a Senior Counsel in 2000. He is a Professorial Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education where he teaches the Law and Practice of Arbitration as part of the Bar Examinations. He is a Fellow of the Chartered and Singapore Institutes of Arbitrators as well as a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). Leslie has sat both as a sole Arbitrator and as part of a tribunal in ICC, SIAC and ad hoc arbitrations both in Singapore and abroad. He is the author of the ‘Law and Practice of Arbitration in Singapore’ (LexisNexis, 2010). Leslie has also taught advocacy to the local Bar as well as lawyers in other jurisdictions for many years. He was one of the early Singapore lawyers to train with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) in the USA. More recently, he was part of the faculty in the Singapore Advanced Advocacy Course 2014, which is modeled on the International Advanced Advocacy Course, Keeble College, Oxford. 

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