Summary
The past quarter of a century has seen the growth of Singapore into a leading hub for international arbitration. Over this period, the Singapore arbitral jurisprudence has also developed in sophistication and maturity. This contribution will provide an overview of arbitration-related case law of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and will highlight some of the key developments in Singapore’s arbitral jurisprudence. As will be seen, the Singapore courts’ approach to arbitration is decidedly proarbitration. It is one that is underpinned by the policy of minimal curial intervention based on considerations of party autonomy and finality of the arbitral process. This approach may perhaps be said to reflect the expectation, which the first author had observed elsewhere, that courts “should supervise with a light touch but assist with a strong hand”.
b-Arbitra | Belgian Review of Arbitration