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Singapore High Court finds that parties are presumed to have chosen the law of the seat as the proper law of the arbitration agreement

27 June 2014

The Singapore High Court recently found in FirstLink Investments Corp Ltd v
GT Payment Pte Ltd and others [2014] SGHCR 12 that where there is no
express choice of law, the proper law of the arbitration agreement is generally
the law of the seat (typically chosen out of a desire for neutrality), rather than
the law of the substantive contract.

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