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Arb-Med-Arb Service in Singapore International Mediation Centre - A Hotfix to the Pitfalls of Multi-tiered Clauses*
by Constance Castres Saint Martin

Singapore has positioned itself as an international dispute resolution hub in Asia by providing a complete suite of services for international arbitration, international litigation and mediation through the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”), the Singapore International Commercial Court (“SICC”) and the Singapore International Mediation Centre (“SIMC”). SICC and SIMC build on...

Often the parties of an arbitration dispute may be interested in reaching a settlement. While the Common law approach to the role of the arbitral tribunal does not allow the arbitrators to engage in the facilitation of settlements, in the Civil law world, above all in Germany, arbitrators often assist the parties in finding an amicable solution. In Germany, civil law procedure laws and the Rules...

Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) provides an extended range of options to those who wish to avoid being locked into the traditional adversarial litigation or negotiation processes.

“If I were a business man and I had a dispute, I would want it to be resolved as quickly and cost effectively as possible. If it’s an international dispute, usually parties will go for arbitration. And arbitration has its merits. But my question is; why not try mediation first? What have you got to lose?”*

This article discusses some problems of hybrid mediation and arbitration processes and introduces a recently published joint protocol of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the newly created Singapore International Mediation Centre for an arbitration-mediation-arbitration (Arb-Med-Arb) process.

A few months after the launch of the Singapore International Mediation Centre (“SIMC”) in November 2014 and amidst the interest shown by the media and the business community in the latest changes to the Singapore dispute resolution landscape, it is useful to “freeze the image” to look carefully at some of the assets of SIMC and what SIMC can offer to potential business users and to the legal...

The Singapore International Mediation Centre (“SIMC") was officially launched on 5 November 2014. Set up following the recommendations of a Working Group chaired by Edwin Glasgow CBE QC and George Lim SC, the SIMC will supplement the array of international dispute resolution options available in Singapore.

Why should I mediate?
Because it makes sense in most cases.