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NLJ this week: Assessing the Singapore Convention

26 November 2020
Issue: 7912 / Categories: Legal News , ADR , Mediation
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The Singapore Convention on Mediation has been widely hailed but there may be cloud behind the silver lining, law professors write in this week’s NLJ

The Convention, which came into force in September, seeks to provide a uniform enforcement mechanism for international mediated settlement agreements.

Professor Bryan Clark, University of Newcastle, UK, and Professor Tania Sourdin, University of Newcastle, Australia, outline how the Convention works and why it may have some unintended negative consequences.

They write that international commercial arbitration has been criticised in recent years for its increasing costs and complexity, and ‘the same charges have been brought against lawyers in mediation.

‘The increasing infiltration of lawyers in mediation has been well documented of late with party representatives at times accused of treating mediation akin to judicial settlement conferences.’

Issue: 7912 / Categories: Legal News , ADR , Mediation
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