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SIAC Rules 2025: streamlined procedure, pre-commencement emergency relief, coordinated proceedings, preliminary determinations and enhanced transparency on appointments, awards and funding

Published on: 29 January 2025

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Find the SIAC Rules 2025 here. Given SIAC’s status as the world’s second most favoured arbitral body and Singapore’s emergence as the leading global venue for international arbitration, these revisions could have broad effects and may prompt peer institutions to mirror them. Notably, the SIAC Rules 2025 broaden several features SIAC regards as hallmarks of its case management, and also unveil procedures designed to curb protracted and expensive proceedings. SIAC has likewise fine-tuned other clauses, including disclosures on the scrutiny of the draft award and on third-party funding, to bolster transparency and predictability. The authors (both formerly with the SIAC Secretariat) look back at SIAC’s journey since the 6th Edition of the SIAC Rules took effect on 1 April 2016 (SIAC Rules 2016), and highlight provisions likely to interest future users of SIAC arbitration.

The path to the SIAC Rules 2025–eight years on

The SIAC Rules 2016 drew significant notice for pioneering tools such as Early Dismissal, and for its Consolidation and Joinder mechanisms to manage multiparty and multi-contract cases efficiently. Together, these innovations targeted the efficient conduct of complex arbitrations involving multiple parties and contracts. They set the stage for subsequent enhancements now reflected in the SIAC Rules 2025...

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