With the initial dazzling rise of digital assets, courts had to grapple with how to adapt traditional remedies such as injunctions to assets that are often held and transacted anonymously. The crypto crash in 2022 has not reduced the importance of injunctions against...
The case of C v D concerns the issue of whether or not an arbitral tribunal’s decision with respect to compliance with a pre-arbitral tier in a multi-tiered dispute resolution clause is final. The issue is significant and goes to the heart of one of the key...
In the latest word on cryptocurrency disputes, the English High Court in LMN v Bitflyer Holdings Inc and others granted a disclosure order against six cryptocurrency exchanges for know your client (“KYC”) and location information relating to cryptocurrency that had...
The current trending buzzword in the digital assets space in Singapore is “crypto winter” (with its seasonal variations aplenty: see crypto ice age and even crypto spring by the FT). With that topic on everyone’s mind, increasingly we are having conversations with...
On 13 May 2022 the High Court did not monkey around when granting an urgent injunction against a legendary Bored Ape NFT. The High Court has now published its reasoning (Janesh s/o Rajkumar v Unknown Person (“CHEFPIERRE”) [2022] SGHC 264). In its ground breaking...
COVID-19 triggered dramatic changes in the way international arbitration is conducted, but which will remain? Our partner Amanda Lees, based in Singapore, recently shared her insights with The Legal 500 on the Covid-19...
In a judgment delivered on 7 October 2022, the Singapore High Court has refused to enforce a Pennsylvania, USA seated ICDR emergency arbitration award. The Court’s basis for not enforcing the emergency arbitration award was that the Defendant was not given an...
This post is part of our series on Climate Change Disputes. Our earlier posts include: Climate Change Disputes 101: An Introduction, a post on Australia, a post on China Mainland, a post on Hong Kong, and a post on Singapore. The High Court’s recent landmark ruling...
Hourly fees for lawyers are the norm in Hong Kong. Regardless of the outcome of the case, clients usually pay for the time that lawyers spend working on their matters. On 30 June 2022, the government gazetted the Arbitration and Legal Practitioners Legislation...
Litigants at Hong Kong courts now can expect an earlier date to receive their judgments. To ensure that reserved judgments are handed down as expeditiously as is reasonably practicable, the judiciary issued a Practice Direction 36 on 20 May 2022 (“Practice...
This post is part of our series on Climate Change Disputes. Our earlier posts include: Climate Change Disputes 101: An Introduction, a post on Australia (currently, the second most popular jurisdiction for Climate Change Disputes), a post on China Mainland, and a...
This post is part of our series on Climate Change Disputes. Our earlier posts include: Climate Change Disputes 101: An Introduction, a post on Australia (currently, the second most popular jurisdiction for Climate Change Disputes), and a post on China Mainland. Stay...
2021 marked the 30th anniversary of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”), a year with its third-highest caseload with 469 new case filings, and a year in which it changed its Board of Directors, Court of Arbitration and management. SIAC’s 2021...
“Whether procedural requirement[s]…ha[ve] been fulfilled is a question intrinsically suitable for determination by an arbitral tribunal, and is best decided by an arbitral tribunal in order to give effect to the parties’ presumed intention to achieve a quick,...
This post is part of our series on Climate Change Disputes. Our earlier posts include: Climate Change Disputes 101: An Introduction, and a post on Climate Change Trends in Australia (currently, the second most popular jurisdiction for Climate Change Disputes). Stay...
This post is part of our series on Climate Change Disputes around the world. Our inaugural post was a primer on Climate Change Disputes 101 (click here for link). Stay tuned for future posts on jurisdiction specific issues arising out of Climate Change Disputes. How...
We outline the fundamentals of climate change disputes in the first of our series of blog posts on climate change disputes across the Asia-Pacific region. An essential read for government policymakers, directors and in-house counsel of corporations operating or investing in carbon-intensive industry, and government agencies that regulate such sectors.
HKIAC Statistics: demonstrating the steady strength of Hong Kong as a seat for arbitration Early in the Year of the Tiger, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (“HKIAC”) released its Year of the Ox statistics for 2021. Their full report is available here,...
It has been said that the law is a refuge for people who are afraid of numbers. Despite this, many practitioners (particularly those dealing with large construction disputes) are required to grapple with complex calculations and even more complex Excel spreadsheets...
From 1 December 2021, a claimant can make an application for summary judgment in Hong Kong High Court and District Court cases, notwithstanding an allegation of fraud. What is summary judgment, and how summary is it anyway? In short, a summary judgment application...