The long-standing practice to adopt the principle of absolute foreign state immunity by the People’s Republic of China (the PRC) and Hong Kong is coming to an end as the PRC’s Foreign State Immunity Law (the FSIL) is coming...more
On 30 June 2022, Hong Kong enacted framework legislation which introduces legislative amendments aimed at allowing outcome-related fee structures (ORFS) in arbitration and related proceedings (the Amendments).
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Historically, Singaporean law prohibited third party funding arrangements and outcome-related fee structures (ORFS) such as “No-Win, No-Fee” or “No-Win, Less-Fee”. However, other common law jurisdictions, such as England and...more
On 1 December 2020, the International Arbitration (Amendment) Act 2020 (the Amendment Act) came into force, introducing two of the proposed amendments to the Singapore International Arbitration Act (SIAA) that had been...more
The world’s largest trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed on 15 November 2020, concluding more than 30 rounds of negotiations over eight years.
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