SINGAPORE, Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 60
participants from 16 courts and jurisdictions including
Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New
Zealand, People's Republic of
China and Singapore, have completed the
inaugural Masterclass Programme for Commercial Judges in
Asia held at the Judicial Training
Centre of the Supreme Court of Indonesia in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.
Held from 9 to 12 September 2024,
the Masterclass was a four-day intensive course jointly
organised by the Judicial Training Centre and the Singapore
Judicial College, covering key topics in commercial law that are of
concern to many judiciaries; namely technology and law,
arbitration, cross-border insolvency, shipping and maritime law,
and intellectual property.
The idea for a Masterclass was first seeded in November 2023 when Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon of Singapore visited the Judicial Training Centre
of the Supreme Court of Indonesia.
These plans crystallised further when Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Indonesia, Prof Dr
Muhammad Syarifuddin met with Chief
Justice Menon in February this year.
The Chief Justices jointly invited jurisdictions in the
Asia-Pacific region to nominate
participants for the Masterclass, which is intended for High Court
judges with two to three years of experience.
The faculty for the Masterclass comprised eminent international
commercial judges who are experts in their respective fields.
Speakers and facilitators included Justice I Gusti Agung Sumanatha,
Justice Syamsul Marif and Justice Nani
Indrawati (Indonesia),
Chief Justice Menon, Justice Aedit
Abdullah, Justice Philip Jeyaretnam,
Justice Kannan Ramesh, Justice S
Mohan, Justice Dedar Singh Gill (Singapore), Justice James Allsop (Singapore International Commercial
Court), Chief Justice (Ret) Geoffrey
Ma (Hong Kong SAR), Justice David
Goddard (New Zealand),
Justice Dai Yiting (China) and Prof Jansen Calamita from the
National University of Singapore.
In his keynote address, Chief Justice
Menon outlined how changes affecting core commercial areas
were transforming the realities of commercial law and practice, and
offered a vision of convergence between judiciaries across the
Asia-Pacific region in key
commercial areas, which could assist our legal systems in managing
these changes. He also highlighted the "unique value
proposition" of the Masterclass and four distinctive features that
made it an important platform for judicial education and exchange
in the Asia-Pacific region; namely
its scope, its methodology, its participants and the network that
it aims to establish.
The role of judges in economic growth becomes critical. Chief
Justice Syarifuddin addressed that the demands on commercial courts
have grown exponentially, driven by the complexities of
cross-border trade, international contracts, and global financial
systems. "The decisions we make as judges can have far-reaching
implications, influencing economic activity and the confidence of
international investors in our legal systems".
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