Herbert Smith Freehills launches latest insights guide: ADR in Asia Pacific - Spotlight on Singapore

As dispute resolution professionals, users, judges, arbitrators and mediators prepare to convene in Singapore for the inaugural event of the Global Pound Conference series, Herbert Smith Freehills sheds light on ADR trends in the city state.

Since the 1990s, Singapore has improved access to ADR. Various schemes and institutions have developed to encourage disputing parties to resolve their differences outside formal legal proceedings (most recently through a novel Arb-Med-Arb procedure). This approach marries well with one of the Global Pound Conference series' primary objectives of understanding what users of dispute resolution want and need in the 21^st Century.

In this issue of our Asia Pacific guide, we shine a spotlight on Singapore to summarise that development and dive deeper into its future direction, addressing:

• ADR in Singapore: developments and trends
• Interview with Ms Eunice Chua, the Deputy CEO of Singapore International Mediation Centre
• Med-Arb, Arb-Med and the Arb-Med-Arb protocol
• Recent trends in governing law and jurisdiction clauses
• Singapore's landmark global conference on the future of dispute resolution

If you would like an electronic copy of our guide, please download it here. Alternatively if you would like to request a hard copy (while stocks last) please email asia.publications@hsf.com.

For further information about the Global Pound Conference Series, which will span 38 cities across 29 countries, please visit www.globalpoundconference.org and register for a local event. You can register for the Singapore event here.   The series will present corporations (and their in-house counsel) with a unique opportunity to benchmark themselves against peers in terms of how they manage and resolve conflict.