2019 – Posted in: Daily News

SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL COURT

Former Supreme Court judge Justice A K Sikri has been appointed as an International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC).

The SICC was officially launched on 5 January 2015.
The SICC is a division of the Singapore High Court and part of the Supreme Court of Singapore designed to deal with transnational commercial disputes.
It is a superior court of law built on the foundations of a legal and judicial system that has been highly regarded and favourably ranked in international surveys conducted by, among others, the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development and the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy.

Generally, the SICC has the jurisdiction to hear and try an action if:

The claim in the action is of an international and commercial nature;
The parties to the action have submitted to the SICC’s jurisdiction under a written jurisdiction agreement; and
The parties to the action do not seek any relief in the form of or connected with, a prerogative order (including a mandatory order, a prohibiting order, a quashing order or an order for a review of detention).

He is an eminent jurist and a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
He had served as the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Justice AK Sikri retired as senior-most puisne judge of Supreme Court of India on 6 March 2019.
Sikri was chosen as one of the 50 most influential persons in Intellectual Property in the world in a survey conducted by Managing Intellectual Property Association (MIPA) for 2007.

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