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On November 13, Martin Polaine took the stage at the prestigious Small States Conference, aptly themed “Small States, Big Futures: A Decade of Dialogue.” This event celebrated its 10th anniversary by inviting back speakers from the inaugural conference in 2015, allowing them to share their perspectives on the developments over the past decade. During his …

Small States Conference on ESG and Human Rights in Investment Law Read More »

Martin Polaine continues his role as a practitioner lecturer/tutor for its Applied Law LLM in ASEAN +6 Cross-Border Legal Practice. Martin teaches Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration and Trade & Investment. The course is a practice-based LLM developed ‘for practitioners, by practitioners’ and focuses on the ASEAN+6 region with an emphasis …

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Martin Polaine & Arvinder Sambei undertook a re-design and re-write of the International Arbitration & ADR Module for the Applied Law LLM in ASEAN +6 Cross-Border Legal Practice. The aim of the module, once rolled out, will be to enable students to satisfy the requirements for Membership of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

The College of Law has appointed Martin Polaine as a Senior Lecturer and he continues his role as a practitioner lecturer/tutor for its Applied Law LLM in ASEAN +6 Cross-Border Legal Practice. Martin teaches Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration and Trade & Investment. The course is a practice-based LLM developed ‘for …

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The Singapore Law Society invited Martin Polaine along with Michael Chu of McDermott Will & Emery LLP (Chicago) to deliver a Webinar e-Masterclass on Intellectual Property Issues Across ASEAN. The workshop was jointly organized by the College of Law and Law Society of Singapore for IP practitioners in the ASEAN region.

The College of Law has appointed Martin Polaine as one of its practitioner lecturers/tutors for its LLM course on ASEAN +6 International Trade & Investment Law and Practice. The lectures are scheduled to start later this week. The College of Law programme focuses on the ASEAN+6 region with an emphasis on cross-border legal practice. The …

Lecturer, ASEAN+6 International Trade and Investment Law & Practice, College of Law (Australia), August 2019 Read More »

Martin Polaine represented NK, Senior Chief Biomedical Scientist & Laboratory Manager, on 6 allegations of misconduct or lack of competence. The hearing lasted 9 days and the panel found the allegations not proved and that the ‘factual case against him has failed in its entirety’. Details of the findings can be accessed here: https://www.hcpts-uk.org/hearings/hearings/2019/may/mr-nicos-a-kafkarkou/

Martin Polaine was engaged by the Council of Europe to conduct a study on the feasibility and advantage of a creating a new binding instrument in the Council of Europe on international co-operation to strengthen the asset recovery framework, in particular, asset management, the recovery and sharing of assets, the grant of mutual legal assistance …

Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 28 – 29 May 2019 Read More »

Donald Lewis, an associate member of Brooke Chambers, was invited to speak at the ‘Forum on Trade Digitalization for Sustainable Regional Integration’. The Forum sought to bring the experience and expertise from both the public and private sector to discuss how cross border paperless data exchange will work, legal recognition of electronic data and documents …

United Nations ESCAP Conference on Cross-Border Paperless Trade Bangkok, 14 – 15 March 2019 Read More »

This short paper seeks to highlight both the essential and desirable components of an arbitration clause and, implicitly, to encourage commercial contracting parties to resist the temptation of simply drafting a so-called ‘midnight clause’, leaving discussion of dispute resolution to the very end of meaningful negotiation. It also goes on to examine the form of …

Striking Before Midnight: The Arbitration Clause And Its Contents Read More »