PAST EVENTS

This full-day conference will bring together the leading arbitration practitioners to debate and discuss the future of ISDS, enforcement of arbitral awards, asset recovery and much more.

This year’s lecture will focus on relational contracts and its practical application in SMC’s new scheme – Integrated Appropriate Dispute Resolution Framework (INTEGRAF).

The Conference will focus on the theme of “Communication and Integration: Development and Cooperation of International Commercial Arbitration in the New Era”,

Debate: This House believes that an Integrated Dispute Resolution (IDR) Mechanism, allowing a Resolver to freely select from Arbitration, Mediation or Negotiation, is the most efficient way to resolve maritime disputes of the future.

[Save the Date] This event by Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration will be on 29 August 2024.

This virtual event is organised by the Institute for Certification and Training of Lusophone Mediators.

Please join the VYAP chapters of Singapore, Colombia, Paris, China, Madrid, Portugal, Paraguay, Australia and Dubai at their screening of the 28-minute documentary “The Tribunal” followed by a 40-minute panel discussion on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (“ISDS”). The documentary “The Tribunal”, directed by Dr Malcolm Rogge and produced in partnership with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, illustrates the human impact on community members in the Intag Valley, Ecuador of an investor-state dispute between a Canadian mining company and Ecuador.

The closing date for registrations is 28 August 2024. Spaces for the in-person event are limited and registrations are on a first-come-first-served basis for junior international arbitration/dispute resolution practitioners and professionals up to 5 PQE or equivalent (including tribunal secretaries, trainees, counsel at institutions, etc.). SG VYAP reserves the right not to accept registrations and to cancel or alter the date and details of the event.

This event is by-invite only, as part of Singapore Convention Week 2024.

Maxwell Conversations features leading personalities at the top of the international dispute resolution industry. These events seek to challenge assumptions with a deeper examination of the issues.

Synopsis

Public policy is an important element in determining the arbitrability of a dispute, and also a ground on which an award may be annulled or refused enforcement. It has often been said that the public policy should be construed narrowly in keeping with the pro-arbitration policy of the New York Convention or the UNCITRAL Model Law.

Perhaps less mentioned is how arbitrator independence and seat court review are so fundamental and universal that they form part of the “international public policy” of arbitration. In contrast to such an “international public policy” is the different notion that a court can enforce an award that has been annulled by the seat court if it regards the annulment to be against the enforcing court’s own public policy, whether it relates to crime, sanctions, corruption, bankruptcy, sovereignty or other concerns. Are the notions of “international public policy” and country public policy the opposite of one another or can and should an enforcing court consider as part of its own public policy (1) “international public policy”, (2) the public policy of the country of the governing law, (3) the public policy of the country of the seat of arbitration, and (4) how to resolve conflict between different public policies?

Join us in a special Singapore Convention Week hybrid edition of Maxwell Conversations as we explore both contour and content of this familiar but not fully charted area of international arbitration.

Maxwell Chambers’ Open House is back with a new, enhanced experience! Join us to discover the Virtual Future of Arbitration, where arbitration meets virtual reality.

📅 Date: August 29, 2024
🕒 Time: 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

🌟 What’s new this year?
• Immersive virtual realities: Experience first-hand how our new cutting-edge technology can bring your arbitration hearings to the next level.
• Exclusive Demos: Explore our latest tools, including Maxwell Onsite and Maxwell Visualiser.

The Legal Counsel Summit is a unique session held in conjunction with the Singapore Convention Week. The summit is a key platform for thought leaders, experts, practitioners, and policymakers, to discuss emerging trends, address common issues, deliberate on new innovations, and drive change.

In this panel discussion, arbitrators and counsel from diverse legal backgrounds will share their views on how approaches to legal fact-finding may differ among various jurisdictions, and what one should accordingly bear in mind when conducting advocacy in an international setting

This Survey draws on the findings of legal and client users on a range of dispute resolution mechanisms, including investor-state dispute settlement, international commercial mediation, international commercial arbitration, and international commercial litigation.

[Save the date] This event is closed-door and by-invite only, on 28 August 2024.

This event on 28 August is organised by International Bar Association, supported by the Singapore International Commercial Court.