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COUNCIL AND OFFICE-BEARERS:

Following the elections at the Annual General Meeting on 27 September 2021, the following is a listing of the Office-Bearers and Council Members till the next AGM in 2022:

President	Mr Tay Yu-Jin	(2021 – 2023) – Elected at AGM 2021
Vice President	TBC	TBC
Honorary Secretary	Mr Francis Goh	(2020 – 2022) – Elected at AGM 2020
Honorary Treasurer	Ms Tan Weiyi	(2021 –  2023) – Elected at AGM 2021
Immediate Past President	Mr Dinesh Dhillon	(2021 – 2023) (Imm. Past President) – under Art. 7.1.3
Council Members
	Mr Chia Chor Leong	(2021 – 2023) – Elected at AGM 2021
	Mr Andrew Pullen	(2021 – 2023) – Elected at AGM 2021
	Mr Ramesh Selvaraj	(2020 – 2022) – Elected at AGM 2020
	Ms Rebecca Tai Andersen	(2020 – 2022) – Elected at AGM 2020
	Mr Yeo Boon Tat	(2021 – 2023) – Elected at AGM 2021

 

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This will be my last message as President of SIArb. I cannot quite believe 4 years have passed. I will be stepping into the role of Immediate Past President after our AGM on 27 September 2021. I look forward to continuing to serve within Council in that capacity. I will always have fond memories of my time at SIArb right back to when I first volunteered to work in Naresh Mahtani’s 25th anniversary celebrations committee. Since then, I have served as Editor of the Newsletter, as Treasurer and Vice President as well. I have been blessed by the camaraderie of fellow committee and Council members as well as the mentorship of past Presidents such as Johnny Tan, Mohan Pillay and Chan Leng Sun SC. It is my hope that SIArb will continue to grow from strength to strength as a leading provider of quality training and education in international arbitration.

One exciting initiative is the launch of the SCMA-SIArb Maritime Arbitrator’s Fellowship Course on 1 Oct 2021. This course will comprise SIArb’s Fellowship Assessment Course (“FAC”) and SCMA’s Maritime Arbitrator Accreditation Program (“MAAP”) and is suitable for aspiring maritime arbitrators who have met the criteria for admission to the FAC. Existing Fellows of SIArb are also encouraged to consider signing up for the MAAP. The inaugural run of the Course will commence with SIArb’s FAC 2021 intake from 1 Oct – 8 November 2021 with the inaugural MAAP component being conducted on 29 October 2021. We look forward to this being the start of a long and fruitful relationship with SCMA.

We had hoped to celebrate SIArb’s 40th anniversary with an in person dinner this year. However, as the current situation with the pandemic is still in a transitionary phase (hopefully becoming endemic soon), Council has decided to postpone our celebrations to next year. Hopefully we will also be in a position to bring back our Symposium at the Old Parliament House. I look forward to seeing you at the AGM when the composition of the newly elected Council will be ascertained.

Thank you for the privilege of being your President these last 4 years.

No.	Position  (nominated for)	Nominee (alphabetical by surname)	Proposer	Seconder
1.	President	Tay Yu-Jin	Dinesh Dhillon	Francis Goh
2.	Treasurer	Tan Weiyi	Tay Yu-Jin	Francis Goh
3.	Council Member	Chia Chor Leong	Dinesh Dhillon	Francis Goh
4.	Council Member	Chia Ho Choon	Dinesh Dhillon	Chan Leng Sun SC
5.	Council Member	Andrew John Pullen	Dinesh Dhillon	Tay Yu-Jin
6.	Council Member	Toh Chen Han	Chia Chor Leong	Mohan Reviendran Pillay
7.	Council Member	Yeo Boon Tat	Dinesh Dhillon	Tay Yu-Jin

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Launch of the“SCMA – SIArb Maritime Arbitrator’s Fellowship Course”

The Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) is pleased to announce the launch of the “SCMA-SIArb MARITIME ARBITRATOR’S FELLOWSHIP COURSE” (“Course”) which will be offered by SIArb in conjunction with the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration ("SCMA").

The Course will comprise SIArb’s Fellowship Assessment Course (“FAC”) and SCMA’s Maritime Arbitrator Accreditation Program (“MAAP”) and is suitable for aspiring maritime arbitrators who meet the criteria for admission to the FAC.

The inaugural run of the Course will commence with SIArb’s Online FAC 2021 intake from 1 October – 8 November 2021 with the inaugural MAAP component being conducted on 29 October 2021.

SIArb’s FAC focuses on teaching candidates the practical aspects of acting as an arbitrator including:

• acceptance of an arbitral appointment
• dealing with jurisdictional challenges
• emergency arbitrations
• case management in conducting an arbitration
• techniques for controlling time and costs in an arbitration
• drafting procedural orders
• dealing with interlocutory applications
• drafting discovery orders
• dealing with costs of interlocutory applications
• dealing with extension of time applications and guerilla tactics
• dealing with preliminary issues
• conduct of the evidentiary hearing
• the practical aspects of actually writing the Final Award.

SCMA’s MAAP will cover:

• an overview of maritime arbitration and issues specific to maritime arbitration, in particular, a discussion on various ADR solutions (costs and time frames), litigation (why it is less suited to commercial parties), and arbitration (advantages and disadvantages of arbitration in a maritime context, fundamental features of maritime arbitration and others).

• the SCMA framework for maritime arbitration and will include the SCMA Model Arbitration Clauses, the Expedited Claims Procedure, the Expedited Arbitral Determination of Collision Claims (SEADOCC), managing arbitration and legal costs, and managing the arbitration procedure.

Candidates who successfully complete the Course will be awarded the “Certificate of Fellowship in Maritime Arbitration” jointly issued by SIArb and SCMA.  For more details on the Course, please visit HERE.

Read the full announcement HERE.

 

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31 August 2021

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 40th Annual General Meeting of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators will be held by electronic means via live webcast on Zoom on 27th September 2021 at 5.30pm to transact the following business

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