Timothy Cooke

Compensation for breach of an arbitration agreement: damages for damages

Singapore - August 18 2014 One of the guerrilla tactics sometimes deployed to undermine an international arbitration is a party's wrongful attempt to invoke the jurisdiction of…

Issue estoppel and res judicata in international arbitration: more weapons in the fight against guerrilla tactics

Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom - November 18 2014 In a number of recent decisions, the courts of England, Switzerland and Singapore have considered the application of res judicata and issue estoppel…

Arbitrability of shareholder disputes

Singapore - April 2 2015 In the previous edition of the Chronicle, we looked at whether winding up proceedings could be stayed when the purported debt on which it was based…

An introductory guide to arbitration in Asia

Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam - October 13 2015 International arbitration in Asia has seen a dramatic surge in popularity in recent times. It has grown up alongside an increase in cross-border…

Lynette Chew, Wendy Tan

Contracts may now be varied orally or by conduct

United Kingdom - May 9 2016 The English Court of Appeal has held that parties are free to agree to whatever terms they choose to undertake, whether in writing, by spoken words…