ICCA Congress 2012: Singapore

International Arbitration: The Coming of a New Age for Asia (and Elsewhere).

Opening Address:  The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Law of Singapore K. Shanmugam SC

Keynote Address:  Sundaresh Menon SC, Attorney General of Singapore  (Singapore)

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International Arbitration: The Coming of a New Age for Asia (and Elsewhere) continues.

Principal Moderators

Sundaresh Menon SC, Attorney General of Singapore  (Singapore) Michael Pryles (Australia)

Panelists

• Gerold Herrmann (Austria)
• Doug Jones (Australia)
• Makhdoom Ali Khan (Pakistan)
• Kevin Kim (South Korea)
• Julian Lew (UK)
• Michael Moser (Hong Kong)
• Alexis Mourre (France)
• Lucy Reed (USA)
• David Williams (New Zealand)
• Ariel Ye (China)  VIEW VIDEO 

Agreeing to and Initiating Arbitration

Principal Moderator: James Castello (USA) Rapporteur: Yu-Jin Tay (Singapore) Rapporteur: Anibal Sabater (Spain) Second Moderator: Domitille Baizeau (Switzerland)

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General Introduction – Transcending national legal orders for international arbitration, both commercial and investment arbitration; legal theories; emerging transnational legal procedure; roles of international law and applicable national laws; lessons for ASEAN from the (Amended) EU Brussels Regulation and Lugano Convention etc..

Principal Moderator: Emmanuel Gaillard (France) Rapporteur: Frédéric Bachand (Canada) Rapporteur: Sébastien Besson (Switzerland)

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The Arbitral Proceedings Commence, with an introduction to E and I Arbitration.

Principal Moderator: Martin Hunter (UK) Rapporteur: Cavinder Bull (Singapore) Rapporteur: Dominic Roughton (Japan) Second Moderator: Jim Morrison (Australia)

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The relationship between international arbitration and the national judge: both arbitral seat and enforcement; anti-suit and anti-arbitration injunctions; bad faith decisions under the New York Convention; state liability for interfering in the international arbitration process.

Principal Moderator: Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler (Switzerland) Rapporteur: José Alvarez (USA) Rapporteur: Adriana Braghetta (Brazil) Second Moderator: Ieva Kalnina (Switzerland)

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Evidence, Document Production, Witnesses, Experts and Hearings.

Principal Moderator: Teresa Cheng (Hong Kong) Rapporteur: Nish Shetty (Singapore) Rapporteur: Anne K. Hoffmann (Germany/ Switzerland) Second Moderator: Adrian Lai (Hong Kong)

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The relationship between international arbitration and the regulator(s): the need for ethical codes, guidelines and best practices for arbitration counsel, arbitrators, arbitral secretaries and arbitral institutions: the DB/MS Rio Code, the ILA Code and the CCBE draft Code.

Principal Moderator: Bernard Hanotiau (Belgium) Rapporteur: Doak Bishop (USA) Rapporteur: Toby Landau (UK) Second Moderator: Min Xiaomao (Singapore) Second Moderator: J. Romesh Weeramantry (Hong Kong)

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The Tribunal Resolves the Dispute.

Principal Moderator: Audley Sheppard (New Zealand) Rapporteur: Jakob Ragnwaldh (Sweden) Rapporteur: Minn Naing Oo (Singapore) Second Moderator: Chester Brown (Australia)

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The Future of European Community Investment Policy: Navigating between a high level of investment protection and increasing demands for “policy space”. – Lessons from the US experience.

Principal Moderator: Kevin Kim (South Korea) Rapporteur: Dan Price (USA) Rapporteur: Nikos Lavranos (Netherlands) Second Moderator: John Bang (Korea)

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Legal and Arbitration Costs.

Principal Moderator: Siegfried Elsing (Germany) Rapporteur: Judith Gill (UK) Rapporteur: Jean-Claude Najar (France) Second Moderator: John M. Townsend (USA)

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The future of ICSID, Ad Hoc Committees, Appellate Tribunals, International Investment Courts and Investment Arbitration.

Principal Moderator: Brigitte Stern (France) Rapporteur: Andrea Menaker (USA) Rapporteur: Christopher Thomas (Canada) Second Moderator: Emmanuelle Cabrol  (France)

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The use of Arbitral Secretaries under the New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and Otherwise: Opportunities and Pitfalls.

Principal Moderator: Constantine Partasides (Cyprus & UK) Rapporteur: Niuscha Bassiri (Iran) Rapporteur: Ulrike Gantenberg (Germany) Second Moderator: Andrew Riccio (USA)

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General Lessons for the New Technological Age of International Arbitration: “Let not what happened to newspaper-owners, book-publishers and candle-stick makers happen to arbitration practitioners ….”

Principal Moderator: William K. Slate II (USA) Rapporteur: The Hon Lord Saville (UK) Rapporteur: Vicky Harris (UK) Rapporteur: Steve Fleming (UK) Rapporteur: Mohamed Abdel Wahab (Egypt) Second Moderator: Philippe Pinsolle (France)

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Judicial Debate on the General Theme: “State Courts and International Arbitration: The Future”.

Principal Moderator: Albert Jan van den Berg (Netherlands) Second Moderator: V. V. Veeder (UK) Panel Secretary: Silvia Borelli (Italy/ Netherlands)

Judicial Debaters:

• The Hon Sundaresh Menon SC (Attorney General of Singapore)
• The Hon Justice Ribeiro (Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong)
• The Hon Murray M Gleeson AC (Former Chief Justice of Australia)
• The Hon Judge Judith Kaye (Former Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals)
• The Hon Judge Dominique Hascher (Presiding Judge at the Court of Appeal of Reims)
• The Hon Lord Mance (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
• The Hon Judge Hossein Abedian (Member of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal at The Hague / Former Justice of the Iranian Supreme Court)
• The Hon Judge Ellen Gracie (Former Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil/ Former President of the Supreme Court of Brazil)
• The Hon Judge Oksana Kozyr (Judge of the Russian Supreme Arbitrazh Court)
• The Hon Justice Bellur Narayanaswamy Srikrishna (Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India)
• The Hon Judge Xiangyang, Xi(Judge of the Fourth Civil Division, The Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China)

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