MAN do we always have a good time when our arbitrators and members get together!

Back by popular demand, "Members' Appreciation Night" is an exclusive event dedicated to celebrating and recognising the invaluable contributions of members. This special evening is an opportunity to express our gratitude for their ongoing support and engagement.

More details will be sent out to our members soon.

The Dinner is to be billed as an annual event bringing together professionals from the maritime arbitration sector. This gathering will includes maritime arbitrators, mediators, lawyers, shipowners, and other industry stakeholders. It serves as a unique networking opportunity for professionals.

The Dinner is also a platform to meet the titans and doyens of shipping, and discuss current commercial and legal issues. Comprising a keynote speech and networking to follow, The Dinner is to be considered a future classic in the maritime legal calendar.

More details will be sent out to our members soon.

The Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), together with the Indonesian National Shipowners' Association (INSA) would like to invite you an inaugural SCMA and INSA Joint Conference!

Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/jz3hpST7WV

SCMA, together with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) along with our member law firms, Norton Rose Fulbright, Oon & Bazul, and Rajah & Tann, would like to invite you to a seminar addressing legal and arbitration matters relating to the maritime and international trade sectors. We are honoured to have Mr Cheong Ming Foong, Consul-General of Singapore’s Consulate-General in Mumbai, deliver the welcome remarks. Our speakers include Mr Kenneth Lim, MPA’s Assistant Chief Executive (Industry & Transformation), experienced maritime lawyers, Mr Bazul Ashhab, Mr Jainil Bhandari , Ms Sue Ann Gan and Mr Edgar Chin, and SCMA’s Executive Director, Ms Bernice Yeoh.

Jointly organised with 7KBW, in this seminar, Stephen Kenny KC will discuss the origins of the tort of conspiracy, and its current division into conspiracy to use unlawful means and conspiracy to injure without using unlawful means.

This talk will explore

• the development of the tort of conspiracy
• its relationship with the recently-recognised tort of causing harm by unlawful means
• potential advantages in formulating a claim in terms of a conspiracy do harm by unlawful means
• issues of pleading and proof
• possible developments in Singapore law

Leading Singapore dispute resolution institutions for arbitration and mediation name their first joint mediator panel for the global shipping industry

Dear Members and Friends,

We’re happy to announce details of Members Appreciation Night 2023!

This year, MAN will be held at PSA Horizon and includes an optional tour of the PSA Innovation Centre on a first-come-first-serve basis.

A flyer with the details is set out below. When registering, please let us know if you intend to come for the optional tour of PSA Innovation Centre. See you there~!

This one-day conference will serve as a platform for legal practitioners, arbitrators, in-house counsels, and senior executives from across the maritime and legal sectors to congregate, engage in discourse, and share their experiences and insights with one another. MCF Training Grant is available for Singaporeans and Permanent Residents.

For registration, please click here

This seminar is on the impact of sanctions on the performance of contracts, how force majeure and frustration impact charterparties, bills of lading, commodities contracts, obtaining judgments in favour of/against sanctioned entities, defences and interrelationship between UK/EU/US and Singaporean sanctions, impact on insurance.

In this seminar, Mr Jeremy Richmond KC will be presenting on the impact of ship line insolvency on international trade contracts and will consider some practical strategies for dealing with such insolvencie

In this seminar, Mr. Greg Laughton SC will share his knowledge and expertise on cross-examination in international arbitration. Aside from the general tenets, advocates, arbitrators, and expert can expect to learn analysing expert evidence, preparing for effective cross-examination of experts, and the style needed when experts give evidence together.

SCMA’s Maritime Arbitrator Accreditation Programme (MAAP) is back! Offered by SCMA and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) in conjunction with the SIArb-SCMA Maritime Arbitrator’s Fellowship Course, SCMA’s MAAP will be held IN PERSON on 14 October 2022 and will be instructed by 2 of SCMA’S esteemed arbitration panel members - Mr Andrew Moran QC and Mr Prem Gurbani. SCMA members will enjoy discounted course fees.

SIBCON is the world’s largest and most influential marine fuel event that will address trade and supply chain developments, and the growth and commercial realities of the fuels marketplace. SCMA members are entitled to a preferential rate. Please email marketing@scma.org.sg for the discount code and click below link "View programme details" to register.

As the world moves to place the global economy on a more sustainable basis, the effects are sure to feed through into the resolution of disputes. Siraj Omar SC will discuss how this will affect arbitration in Singapore and internationally. How will it change the types of disputes we are faced with? How will it change the arbitral process? And what do arbitrators and other practitioners need to learn, or change in the way they practice, in order to be ready for this future?

As part of Singapore Convention Week 2022, SCMA's panel will deliberate which option - arbitration, mediation, or arb-med-arb - works best for the shipping and trade sector in view of the increasingly uncertain geo-political environment and risks of disruption to the global supply chain.

This full day in person event will host thought leaders from the world of arbitration including, lawyers, in-house counsel, and arbitrators to debate and analyse pressing matters in metaverse, blockchain, cryptocurrency and sanctions in the south-east Asia region and beyond. 

A conference presented by the IBA Maritime and Transport Law Committee and supported by the IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum.  Visit the conference page here: https://www.ibanet.org/conference-details/CONF2143. To download a copy of the latest programme, please click “Conference programme” under conference links at the top of the page.

The distinguished panel will share their knowledge and practical experience on the subject of Conflicts of Law in International Arbitration. SCMA members enjoy discounted rates to this event. 

In line with the Singapore Maritime Week's theme of “Transformation for Growth”, the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), will be holding a panel discussion on “Key legal challenges from Digitalization & Decarbonization” talking about some of the changes in law, legislation needed, new challenges and claims, in particular accommodating EEXI, CII and EU ETS regulations in supply chain contracts & charterparties.

To illuminate concept and share practical tips on the new “common expert” or single joint expert, an expert panel comprising lawyers as well as experts who have acted as SJEs outside Singapore will share their insights and wisdom with attendees. SCMA members enjoy discounted rates to this event. 

A new edition of SIArb's International Entry Course is now open for registration. Candidates who pass the International Entry Course may, subject to satisfying other relevant criteria, qualify for admission as a Member of SIArb. 

SCMA members enjoy discounted rates to this event. 

SCMA is pleased to be a supporting organisation of the upcoming Maxwell Conversations, “Good Faith in International Arbitration”, by Maxwell Chambers. 

The 4th edition of SCMA Arbitration Rules has been launched and will apply to all arbitrations commencing on and after 1 January 2022.

In this webinar, the changes to the SCMA Arbitration Rules will be introduced. This will be followed by a discussion on the usability and applicability of the Rules.

In this webinar, the panel will compare aspects of arbitration law and practice in the two jurisdictions and ask what lessons Singapore and Switzerland can learn from each other to build on their success and how Singapore can maintain its attractiveness for cases governed by civil law systems. SCMA members enjoy discounted rates to this event.

This seminar will examine lessons to be learned from recent case law and practice for the drafting and interpretation of arbitration clauses, including a discussion of the problems currently crossing the desks of arbitral institutions and parties’ legal advisers.  SCMA members enjoy discounted rates to this event.

SCMA members enjoy discounted rates to this event where attendees can learn about counsel’s and arbitrator’s points of view on what judges and arbitrators expect from expert witnesses.

Please join us for this webinar where we will have expert speakers from across Asia and Europe discussing the challenges and opportunities associated with achieving ‘net zero’ emissions in the maritime sector. They will also be reflecting on the outcomes of COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference currently taking place in Glasgow, and its implications for the maritime and shipping sector going forward.

Clyde & Co and SCMA are delighted to be jointly hosting a webinar focusing on bunker quality claims. This session will provide insights on bunker quality issues from different industry perspectives including from a bunker supplier, shipping company and surveyor, as well as providing insight and guidance on legal and dispute resolution issues.

SCMA is pleased to be a supporting association of the IBIA Annual Convention 2021. We will be represented by Mr. John Sze, Deputy Managing Partner, Joseph Tan Jude Benny LLP, member, SCMA Promotions Committee, in the panel discussion, "Enforcement: What to expect?" 

For more details, please view the event microsite and course brochure. 

As part of Singapore Convention Week, this webinar, organised by SCMA, in strategic partnership with Oon & Bazul and SIMC, showcases why neutral, cost-effective and flexible hybrid frameworks for maritime & international dispute resolution (DR) are gaining momentum and enhances process integrity and enforceability whilst offering control mechanisms for efficient DR. 

All who are involved in the dispute resolution process should attend this unique Conference.

SCMA is proud to be a supporting organization of this event and SCMA members get to enjoy discounted ticket rates for it.

Australia’s High Commissioner to Singapore, HE The Hon Will Hodgman, will discuss how, during his time as Premier, Tasmania became the first jurisdiction in Australia to achieve net-zero emissions. SCMA members enjoy discounted rates to this event.

The Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration is pleased to be a supporting organisation of “GAR Connect: Singapore”. SCMA members are entitled to a 10% discount. SCMA members are entitled to a 10% discount (If you are a SCMA member, please e-mail mail@scma.org.sg for the discount code).

Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration is pleased to be a supporting organization of "Maxwell Conversations", a brand-new series by Maxwell Chambers.

"The Right to a Physical Hearing" is the first webinar in this series. 

SCMA is pleased to be a supporting organization of the 2021 China High-Level Dialogue on Maritime and Commercial Arbitration (CHDOMACA). SCMA’s representative, Mr. Nicholas Lum, member of the SCMA Procedure and Promotion Committees; Partner, Clyde & Co (Shanghai); Director, Clasis LLC (Singapore), will be one of the speakers at Session I: Hot Issues of Maritime Arbitration. 

SCMA members get to enjoy preferential rates to this event. 

SCMA members get to enjoy preferential rates to this event.

The Singapore Chambers of Maritime Arbitration is pleased to be a co-organizer of "Charterparty Disputes & Prevention – Practical Considerations", a webinar series by the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers Hong Kong Branch & WISTA International (Women’s International Shipping & Trade Association), Hong Kong. The first webinar in the series, "Safe Port – Eastern City to Ocean Victory & Beyond" will be held on 16th June 2021, 6pm – 7.15pm Hong Kong/Singapore. 

Experts, and all those who are involved in the business of dispute resolution where expert testimony is frequently required, should attend this Roundtable.

 SCMA members get to enjoy discounted ticket rates for this event. 

SCMA announced in February 2021 that the Baltic Exchange’s escrow service offerings will be available to all SCMA members at competitive rates. SCMA and the Baltic Exchange will be holding an information session (via Zoom) to share with SCMA members about this exclusive arrangement. Please register here: https://forms.office.com/r/yc91K8dk7m.

SCMA is a proud partner of Marine Insurance Asia, the Marine Insurance partner of Singapore Maritime Week. Now in its second year, the complimentary three-day virtual conference offers insights into some of the most pressing issues facing shippers and insurers throughout Asia in 2021 and beyond. Do join to hear from market-leading marine insurers, brokers and service providers. There is no charge. 

Sea Asia April Virtual Preview is gearing up to set sail on 21 - 22 April 2021! Pivoting to an online presence, Sea Asia Virtual Preview aims to bring forth an innovative event experience. Held alongside the Virtual Preview, Sea Asia Insights showcases four exciting complimentary thought-provoking webinar topics! Register for your free virtual visitor pass now. https://www.sea-asia.com/en/visit/register.html

The Singapore Maritime Technology Conference (SMTC 2021) is the debut of its first hybrid event on 19 – 22 April 2021 themed A New Era in Technology & Innovation, providing both the onsite engagement experience at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore and online via a virtual platform. Organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the anchor event of Singapore Maritime Week (SMW) 2021, the 5th Singapore Maritime Technology Conference (SMTC) aims to bring together the rapidly expanding maritime ecosystem, focusing on tech trends and their commercial applications, emerging R&D and next steps in digitalisation. 

 For more information, visit www.smtcsingapore.com

The webinar will consider when and in which ways terms may be implied into shipping contracts. Mr. Punit Oza, Executive Director, SCMA will be participating as a panelist. 

A joint event in partnership with the SAL, SCMA is holding a hybrid mock arbitration. The mock scenario is based on a fictional misdelivery of cargo and bills of lading dispute to showcase SCMA arbitration in a realistic and complex online arbitration hearing. 

All profits from the event will be donated to SG-STAR Fund. 

SCMA members get to enjoy preferential rates to this event.

The Baltic Exchange will give an update about performance of shipping market indices. SCMA and The Baltic Exchange will also highlight the practical aspects of using SCMA smartly and effectively. This free 1-hour webinar is a collaborative effort between the International Malaysian Society of Maritime Law (IMSML), The Baltic Exchange and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA). The webinar should be of interest to shipowners, charterers, insurance personnel, bankers, lawyers and other interested commercial parties.

Organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), SIBCON 2020 will centre stage strategic views on responsible shipping, fuel mix and compliance scenarios, emerging fuels and bunkering 2030 and beyond.

Join us for SCMA's inaugural webinar which is suitable for both legal and non-legal professionals who are present or future users of arbitration!

We thank you for being a part of SCMA and your continuous support and contribution to the maritime community. Please join us for a wonderful evening of wine, nibbles and camaraderie! 

In this milestone year, the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) is proud to partner with our members and friends, bringing together industry professionals, business leaders and legal practitioners for our first decennial conference. Experienced professionals and thought leaders will discuss these issues and debate how maritime dispute resolution services will evolve to meet the needs of the global maritime community.

As the arbitration process is private, this is a rare opportunity to see an SCMA arbitration in action. Join us for an interesting afternoon of lively and engaging cross examination, followed by Q&A and networking session.

In an age where competing arbitral institutions and dispute resolution centres are defining themselves with unique procedural processes and bespoke rules, what clients now really demand and need to win their case, are innovative counsel....