Jul. 12, 2019
Singapore Mediation Convention signing in August
On June 26, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law approved the final draft of the Singapore Mediation Convention. The convention will come into effect once it is ratified by three United Nations member states. A signing ceremony is set for Singapore on August 1.
Thomas Klitgaard
Email: tjk@dillinghammurphy.com
Tom is an experienced commercial mediator. He is a practicing lawyer in San Francisco and is an adjunct professor of Asian Legal Systems and of an Introduction to Chinese Business Law at the University of San Francisco Law School. He is a member of the panel of mediators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association in New York and of the Singapore International Commercial Mediation Centre.
On June 26, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law approved the final draft of the Singapore Mediation Convention. The convention will come into effect once it is ratified by three United Nations member states. A signing ceremony is set for Singapore on August 1.
Basically, the convention does for international mediation what the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards ...
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