Webinar: Conflict of Laws in BRI disputes: A Comparative Approach
Published on Jun 04, 2020
SIDRA will host a webinar on the conflict of laws in BRI disputes on 14 July 2020 with practitioners Patrick Zheng and Christopher Boog providing insights from the Chinese and Swiss perspectives, and with Prof Darius Chan providing comparative remarks from a common law lens. The event will be moderated by Allison Goh, formerly counsel with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre handling…
The Business Times: New Fronts for Mediation as Preferred Form of Dispute Resolution amid Covid-19
Published on Jun 04, 2020
Kelly Ng from The Business Times has written an article on how mediation could be on the uptake for businesses. The article highlights the Covid-19 Protocol by the Singapore International Mediation Centre, which could allow for a mediation to be organised within 10 working days. SIDRA Director Professor Nadja Alexander's remarks on cross-border mediation and hybrid mechanisms were also mentioned…
New Faces at SIDRA
Published on Jun 01, 2020
SIDRA is pleased to welcome Allison Goh to the SIDRA family. Allison is a Singapore-qualified lawyer with private practice and counsel experience at an arbitral institution and joins us as Research Associate focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative. Her full bio is below.
Allison Goh (Research Associate)
Allison Goh holds a LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) (Hons) from the National University of…
The Straits Times, "Make Mediation Your First Port of Call for Legal Disputes" - George Lim (Senior Counsel)
Published on Jun 01, 2020
Mr George Lim (Senior Counsel and Chairman of the Singapore International Mediation Centre) has written an article for the Straits Times on how mediation should be the first port of call for legal disputes to improve chances of business recovery. This is so even if parties think that they have a strong case for litigation. The article also mentions that SIMC and the Singapore International…
SIDRA Director's Appointment to the International Advisory Board of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes
Published on May 18, 2020
SIDRA is pleased to announce that SIDRA Director Professor Nadja Alexander has been appointed to the International Advisory Board of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes. The current Ombudsman is Giuseppe De Palo, and more information on the Office of the Ombudsman can be found here: https://fpombudsman.org/.
The Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds…
New Faces at SIDRA
Published on May 12, 2020
SIDRA is pleased to welcome Vakhtang Giorgadze to the SIDRA family. Vakhtang, a lawyer from Georgia, joins us as Research Associate and will focus his research on the Singapore Mediation Convention. His full bio is below. Please stay tuned as we will be introducing the SIDRA family through our blog in the next few weeks.
Vakhtang Giorgadze (Research Associate)
Vakhtang is a qualified…