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In this issue
Hot-tubbing in International Arbitration…1
By Chia Voon Jiet
Upcoming Amendments to the International Arbitration Act …………….. 3
By Chew Kiat Jinn & Mahesh Rai
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Five months after the Competition Act 2010 (“Act”) came into force on 1 January 2012, the Malaysia Competition Commission (“MyCC”) has issued the final version of three guidelines (collectively, “Guidelines”) it had previously made available for public consultation last year. The Guidelines comprise of the following:
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There are currently only 22 generic top level domains (gTLDs) in the world. A top level domain is the last part of a domain name (e.g. .com).
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THE COMPETITION ACT
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IDA ISSUES TELECOM COMPETITION CODE 2012 AND NEW TELECOM CONSOLIDATION AND TENDER OFFER GUIDELINES
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Crédit Industriel et Commercial v Teo Wai Cheong [2012] SGHC 94
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On 14 June 2011, the Corporate Governance Council (“Council”) issued a consultation paper with proposed revisions to the Code of Corporate Governance (“Code”). Please click here to refer to Drew & Napier LLC’s update on that consultation.
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In P.T. Swakarya Indah
Busana v Haniffa Pte
Ltd and another [2012]
SGHC 69, the Plaintiff
sought to invalidate
the Defendants’ 15
“Martin” formative
trade marks (“the
Challenged marks”)
on grounds that the marks were
registered in bad faith (section 7(6)
read with section 23(1) of the Trade
Marks Act (the “Act”), and that there
was fraud in the registrations or
the registrations were obtained by
misrepresentation (section 23(4) of the
Act).
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The recent decision
of the Singapore
High Court (“the
Court”) in the appeal
of Wong Seng Kwan
v Public Prosecutor
[2012] SGHC 81
(“Wong”) clarifies
the law relating to
the obligations of a person who finds
lost property (“a Finder”).
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On 11 April 2012, The Monetary Authority of Singapore
(MAS) announced that it took a civil penalty enforcement
action against Mr Lau Kee Swan for contravening section
201(b) of the Securities and Futures Act (SFA), which
prohibits the employment of manipulative and deceptive
devices in connection with the subscription, purchase or
sale of securities.