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
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