Hong Kong’s judicial system is under increasing duress as signs grow that the Communist Party leadership in Beijing wants to bring the city’s courts to heel. Three senior judges told Reuters the independence of the judiciary is now under threat.

As COVID-19 continues to dominate headlines, and mental space, law firms are doing their best to adapt to new government-mandated rules, a slowdown in transactions and a global business culture shift, but some are more successful at this than others.

The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) has set a new annual record for new cases after notching up 479 new filings in 2019.

The ALB Singapore’s Top In-House Teams 2020 list will showcase the achievements of the finest in-house legal teams in Singapore.

For a litigation lawyer in Indonesia, it was common to wait several hours in court before the trial started. In many cases, the trial only takes not more than 10 minutes. We assume that the Supreme Court of the Republic Indonesia (the “Supreme Court”) finally realized that they have to build a better system to simplify the hearing proceedings by introducing the administrative dispute and electronic trial through the regulation of the Supreme Court No. 3 year 2018. The electronic trial or known as E-Court system which consists of E-Filling, E-Payment, E-Summon, and E-Litigation. The E-Court rules and regulations are subsequently refined with the enforcement of the Supreme Court Regulation No. 1 of 2019 (“Perma No. 1/2019”). Perma No. 1/2019 encourages the court to apply the electronic courts (E-litigation) system.

In 2025 Indonesia target 23% of its national energy sourced from renewable energy and in 2050, it is expected to reach 31%.1 Perhaps it is an ambitious target as the realisation in 2019 only reached 12.36%, just about half of the 2025’s target, which is far below the expectation.

Having been in various forms of compliance for the last twenty years, here are my top takeaways that are designed to be direct, challenging and a warning to compliance teams to think differently and adjust their approach.

In May 2016, the Ministry of Law announced the establishment of the Civil Justice Review Committee (“CJRC”) which was tasked to propose reforms to the Singapore civil justice system.

I believe that the last thing every litigator would like to experience is realising that the client does not have the necessary documents to support their stance in a dispute. This not necessarily happened because the client deliberately not keeping any documents pertaining the dispute, but can also be caused by lack of knowledge from the client of what document that should be kept. For example, in any business contract, it is pivotal that respective party has the agreement (contract document) and also all of the documents that entails.

Priyabrat Tripathy and Abhishek Aggarwal, formerly lawyers at law firm Agarwal Jetley & Co. and highway builder GR Infraprojects, respectively, have launched an infrastructure and dispute resolution-focused boutique in Delhi called Apex Partners.