Enforcement, Legal Issues, mediated settlement agreement, Mediation Outcomes, Mediation Practice, Set Aside a Mediated Agreement, Settlement Agreements, Singapore

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As the practice of cross-border mediation grows, it is imperative for legal and other professional advisers involved in drafting mediated settlement agreements (MSAs) to become familiar with how different courts deal with litigation about MSAs. In this post, we look at a recent 2019 decision of the Singapore High Court, Jumaiah bte Amir and Another…

ADR, cross-border mediation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, International Mediation, Legal Issues, Singapore Convention on Mediation

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This post is part of a series on the UN Convention on Mediated Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (the Singapore Convention on Mediation). In previous posts we have outlined the conventional view that Article 5 of the Singapore Convention establishes exhaustively all the possible exceptions to the enforcement of iMSAs that have otherwise have complied…

ADR, Arbitration, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, International commercial mediation, International Law, International Mediation, Legal Issues, Legislation, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Singapore, UNCITRAL

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For dispute resolution practitioners familiar with the concept of the seat of arbitration, it may come as a surprise that the new UN Convention on International Settlement Agreement Resulting from Mediation does not include provisions in relation to the ‘seat’ of mediation. Why, you may ask? The Convention includes no provisions on ‘seat’ simply because…

Dispute Resolution, Domestic Courts, Enforcement, Enforcement of a Mediation Clause, Legal Issues, mediated settlement agreement, Mediation Outcomes, Mediation Practice, mediation process, Set Aside a Mediated Agreement, Settlement Agreements, Singapore, Uncategorized

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In October, we reported on a recent case from the Singapore High Court: Chan Gek Yong v Violet Netto. In that post, we examined the High Court’s attitude towards parties who have had a change of heart after agreeing to conclude a Mediated Settlement Agreement (‘MSA’) and wish to challenge its validity. Last month we…

ADR, Court Procedure and Litigation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement of a Mediation Clause, Lawyers, lawyers in mediation, Legal Issues, mediated settlement agreement, Mediation Practice, Reflective Practice, Set Aside a Mediated Agreement, Settlement Agreements, Singapore, Uncategorized

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Hot off the press, the case of Chan Gek Yong v Violet Netto (practising as L F Violet Netto) and another and another matter [2018] SGHC 208 (‘Violet Netto’) decided by the Singapore High Court provides us with clues as to the Court’s general attitude towards mediation and mediated settlement agreements (‘MSAs’). It is useful…

ADR, Business, Commercial Mediation, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement, mediated settlement agreement, Uncategorized

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In the first few months of this year I found myself returning to Vietnam a number of times thanks to Vietnamese initiatives in commercial mediation. Most recently I was involved in workshops hosted by the Vietnam Business Lawyer’s Club, the Judicial Academy and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Given the mediation activity in Vietnam and…

ADR, Commercial Mediation, cross-border mediation, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement, International Mediation, mediated settlement agreement, Settlement Agreements, Uncategorized, UNCITRAL, UNCITRAL Model Law

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The forthcoming Singapore Convention on Mediation will be the first UN Treaty named after Singapore. At the 51st Session of the United Nations (UN) Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on 26 June 2018, the final drafts of the Convention on the Enforcement of International Settlement Agreements and corresponding Model Law were approved. A resolution…

ADR, Decision making, Dispute Resolution, General, Governments/Public Sector, Intuition, Japan, Negotiation, Neuroscience, North Korea, peace negotiations, Singapore, United States

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Here in Singapore, along with the rest of the world, we await the Trump-Kim Summit scheduled for Tuesday 12 June. What can we expect? While we may have learned to expect the unexpected from these two leaders, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un, recent media reports have highlighted one apparently predictable feature of Trump’s negotiation approach….

ADR, Arbitration, Commercial Mediation, cross-border mediation, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement, Future of mediation, harmonisation of mediation law, International Mediation, mediated settlement agreement, New York Convention, Promoting Mediation, UN and International Organizations, Uncategorized, UNCITRAL, UNCITRAL Model Law

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During its 68th session from 5 – 9 February in New York UNCITRAL Working Group II (Dispute Settlement) concluded its work on the preparation of an instrument or instruments on the enforcement of international commercial settlement agreements arising from mediation. In the mediation community we often refer to such settlements as (international) mediated settlement agreements…

Accreditation, Cross-cultural, Developing the Field, Evaluative Mediation, Future of mediation, Hong Kong, mediation models

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Greg Bond’s recent post on mediation cultures reminded me of an encounter I had with a group of mediators several years ago. Allow me to share with you my recollection of what happened. I was conducting a workshop on international and intercultural approaches to mediation for 15 freshly-minted mediators from a European country — all…