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Edwin Glasgow QC and George Lim SC to jointly lead SIMC in 2016 .

THE Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) said on Monday that Queen’s Counsel (QC) Edwin Glasgow and Senior Counsel (SC) George Lim have been appointed co-chairmen of SIMC, with effect from Jan 1, 2016.

Following Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon’s speech at the Opening of the Legal Year on Monday, 11 January 2016, SIMC Mediator Mr Michael Hwang SC notes in an interview with Channel News Asia that “(t)he SIMC has to develop capacity.

Cross-border business for the legal profession has increased in recent years, with a vast majority of clients opting for arbitration to settle disputes, a study commissioned by the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) has found.

Singapore is the place to be to settle commercial and wealth-related disputes, said Senior Minister of State for Finance and Law Indranee Rajah yesterday.

DISPUTES between two parties can now be solved within about one to two days with the new Mediation Centre that was opened in Suva yesterday.

SAVING relationships while helping people resolve problems that are not on paper - in a world where hard facts in litigation still rule the day - is not a soft option.

Singapore International Mediation Centre visits Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru to create awareness of dispute resolution options in S’pore

FLORENCE, ITALY – Today marks the birth of the Florence International Mediation Chamber (FIMC), a high-quality international mediation service for citizens and companies run by the Florence Chamber of Commerce. Now, with this new service, the city which regularly employed mediators to resolve controversies as far back as the time of the Guilds in the Middle Ages, puts itself forward as a new ...

MUMBAI: India ranks second in the number of cross-border disputes that come before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, revealed Sundaresh Menon Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Singapore on Wednesday, a jump from the third place only in 2013.