About this Seminar:-

Given the evolution and development of arbitration of commercial disputes over the past 30 years, will mandatory publication of awards with appropriate safeguards as to confidentiality, strengthen or weaken the process in Singapore?

Should arbitrators welcome or fear their written word being read, and would the possibility of some facts become public knowledge push commercial parties to choose litigation instead?

This talk aims to bring out the issues involved in a deceptively simple question which has implications at an individual and collective level for arbitrators.  

Seminar Programme:- 

About the Speaker:  

Chuan Thye is a Senior Counsel of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a Fellow of SiArb and CIArb.

He has a broad commercial, corporate and financial dispute resolution practice as lead counsel in various court and arbitration proceedings. The practice has a wide geographical scope and he represents a range of domestic and international entities. He has been recognised by leading publications – such as Chambers Global – in the field of dispute resolution work.

Apart from his work as lead counsel, Chuan Thye has sat on a significant number of arbitration proceedings both as sole arbitrator and as part of a tribunal. He is on the panel of arbitrators of the ICC, the SIAC and the KLRAC. In addition, Chuan Thye is recognised as a leading restructuring and insolvency lawyer and is a fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore.  

About the Chairperson: 

Chía Ho Choon is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department, and a member of the firm's lnternational Arbitration Practice, Group. Ho Choon obtained a Diploma in lnternational Commercial Arbitration in 2004, is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Singapore lnstitute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Chartered lnstitute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Malaysian lnstitute of Arbitrators. He was on the panel for the Plenary Session on Enforcing Arbitration Awards in Asia and Contesting Arbitral Rulings at the Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Summit.

He conducted a seminar for the Bar Association of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on lnternational Arbitration and the Benefits of Arbitration. Ho Choon presented papers on Dispute Resolution in Asia - Arbitration v Litigation for the ln-House Legal Counsel Asia Seminar, lnternational Arbitration Law of Singapore and Enforcement of Foreign Awards at the lnternational Conference on Construction Arbitration in Philippines. He helped organise and taught at the Arbitration Law & Practice course in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2009, and actively taught in Cambodia from 2010 to 2014 in courses run by SlArb.

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