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Singapore, 6 January 2017 – SIMC is pleased to announce that as part of a planned leadership transition, Mr George Lim, SC of Singapore law firm Wee Tay & Lim LLP, has been appointed as Chair of the Board with effect from 1 January 2017. Mr Edwin Glasgow QC, of 39 Essex Chambers in the UK, who was a Co-Chair with Mr Lim, will remain on the Board to provide strategic guidance for SIMC.

SIMC congratulates its Co-Chairmen Mr Edwin Glasgow CBE QC and Mr George Lim SC, as well as 12 of its mediators for receiving mentions in the 2016 Who’s Who Legal Mediation 2016 Analysis.

Singapore, 23 May 2016 – SIMC is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Aloysius Goh as its new Deputy CEO with effect from 1 July 2016.

The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) has reported a 22 per cent increase in the number of new cases filed in 2015, reaching a new record of 271 cases.

The Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) has grown since it officially opened in November 2014, according to data from its recently released 2014/2015 annual report.

Companies which opt for mediation in intellectual property disputes will soon be able to benefit from subsidies under a new scheme.

In 2013, an International Commercial Mediation Working Group (“Working Group”) made various recommendations to develop Singapore into a centre for international commercial mediation. The Working Group’s recommendations were made with a view to adding to Singapore’s vibrant dispute resolution landscape and were accepted by the Government in December 2013.

Statistics reflect positive start to SIMC’s operations and growth of Singapore as international dispute resolution hub

A change of leadership takes place at the Singapore International Mediation Centre, while firms and in-house lawyers alike prepare to discuss the subject in depth ahead of the first Global Pound Conference, to take place in March 2016.

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Law is looking into “substantive reforms” in civil and criminal law, including helping the legal industry embrace innovation to remain forward-looking, and creating new channels for talent to enter the sector, Law Minister K Shanmugam said on Friday (Jan 22).