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15 February 2024

Thank you June and Intellitrain, welcome CMA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Lunar New Year to all of our fellows, members, colleagues and friends of the SIArb who celebrate. 

May the Year of the Dragon bring you joy, success, good health and abundance! 

The Lunar New Year is customarily a time for reunions with loved ones, to give thanks and to celebrate new beginnings.  In this connection, this season marks a time of thanksgiving and transition for SIArb as we onboard a new secretariat team following the retirement of Intellitrain as SIArb's secretariat services provider. 

As a volunteer led organisation with an extremely busy annual programme, SIArb has been fortunate to have had the support of June Tan and her fantastic team at Intellitrain over the past decade.  Intellitrain has contributed as a true stakeholder of SIArb, seeing through milestone after milestone, including our 40th anniversary Gala Dinner in 2022, digitalising and taking our Fellowship and International Entry Courses to the next level during the unprecedented pandemic years, launching the Singapore Arbitration Journal and not least organising innumerable successful lectures, symposia, seminars and social events that our members and friends have enjoyed year after year.  Despite a challenging handover years ago, Intellitrain leaves SIArb on strong foundations with three consecutive years of growth and a solid financial position.

In these respects, June and her team over the years (including Joy, Lynn, Cheryl, Linh, Daphne, Shandy, Keerthi, Gabriel and others who have worked behind the scenes) will always be fondly remembered as part of the SIArb family.

June Tan collage

On behalf of SIArb, Council wishes to convey our utmost gratitude to June and her team (present and past) for their contributions to SIArb’s development and evolution.  Many of our members will have interacted with June at some point and we will all miss her. 

Sadly, the time has come to bid farewell to Intellitrain as secretariat, but we will continue to count them as friends and look forward to welcoming June and her team as special guests of SIArb on future occasions. 

Effective 15 February 2024, directors Allison Law and Beatrice Goh and their team at CMA International Consultants will be taking over in providing secretariat services for SIArb.  CMA was founded in 1995 and has over 25 years of experience in providing secretariat services to professionals-led associations as well as conference and event management.  Their contact details will be published on SIArb's website and LinkedIn page.  The new SIArb enquiries hotline will be +65 6336 4970.

2024 got off to a cracking start with two CPD events already, including the ever popular annual 'Developments in Singapore Arbitration' hybrid seminar by Professor Lawrence Boo and Delphine Ho, which again attracted over 100 registrations in Singapore and abroad. 

Given the transition in the secretariat team, Council foresees that we are likely to have to moderate the number of events organised by SIArb in the initial few months.  Thank you in advance for your understanding and patience as we welcome CMA to the SIArb family.  Our priority is to ensure a smooth transition so that our governance and cornerstone activities, in particular our membership and fellowship courses, will not be impacted.  We plan to pick up the pace of events again later in the year and will continue to hold our flagship events such as the SIArb Lecture, Annual Symposium and Annual Dinner.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me or any of the Council Members.  

Thank you and I look forward to seeing everyone at our upcoming events.

Tay Yu-Jin

President, SIArb 2023-2025
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

June 2017

I trust that those who attended this year's Members' Nite in April were pleased with the venue at VLV Singapore. Our Vice-President Dinesh Dhillon held court and welcomed new and existing members. The stylish and newly renovated heritage building at Clarke Quay was a perfect place to unwind and renew acquaintances

Singapore's Third Party Funding regime is now firmly in place. The Civil Law (Amendment) Act (CLA) and the Civil Law (Third-Party Funding) Regulations 2017 are supplemented by the Law Society's Guidance Note 10.1.1 on Third Party Funding, the SIAC Practice Note on Arbitrator Conduct in Cases Involving External Funding and the SIArb Guidelines for Third Party Funders which were launched on 18 May 2017. We have taken on board suggestions that SIArb should offer third party funders an opportunity to declare their support for the Guidelines. Those who do will be acknowledged on the SIArb website as being a supporter of the Guidelines. I am pleased that some leading Third Party Funders have already come on board. I thank Dinesh Dhillon, Tay Yu-Jin and Sapna Jhangiani who worked with me on the SIArb Guidelines.

In April 2017, our dedicated faculty led by Course Director Naresh Mahtani completed training another group of candidates for our International Entry Course. Our Fellowship Assessment Course will take place in October.

In May 2017, we were fortunate to have Mr Lok Vi Ming, SC share his take on Arbitration and Mediation, which he called the "Siamese Twins for Dispute Resolution". The seminar was chaired by our Treasurer, Mr Chia Ho Choon.

Looking ahead, I invite all members to mark your calendar for our Annual General Meeting on 28 September 2017 and our Annual Dinner on 1 November 2017. We still have other important and informative events lined up, such as CPD seminars delivered by leading lights and our perennial favourite, the SIArb Symposium. You will receive details on these events in due course.

Chan Leng Sun S.C.
President,
SIArb 2013-2017

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