Asian Legal Review

A proposed new security of payment regime in Western Australia would not improve on existing legislation designed to ensure construction subcontractors are paid in a timely fashion for the work they carry out and protect them in the event of an insolvency higher up the supply chain.

The Singapore Court of Appeal has confirmed for the first time the conditions required to grant a freezing injunction after a judgment has been made against the subject of the injunction. The clarification came in the recent case of JTrust Asia Pte Ltd v Group Lease Holdings Pte Ltd and others.

Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) must cut its global carbon emissions by 45% compared to 2019 levels by 2030, a court in the Netherlands has ruled.

The UK Supreme Court has clarified that the six-year period for filing a professional negligence action against a defendant which had negligently missed a midnight deadline includes the day immediately following that deadline.

A Myanmar military tribunal has sentenced 28 people to 20 years in jail with hard labour for arson attacks on two factories, state media reported, after a string of mainly Chinese-financed businesses were torched during unrest in Yangon in March.The army-run Myawady news portal said the offenders had targeted a shoe plant and a garment factory in the industrial Hlaing Tharyar suburb of Myanmar’s biggest city.Martial law was imposed in the suburb after the blazes, with dozens killed or wounded…

When the University of Adelaide launched its Confucius Institute in partnership with Shandong University in 2007, Australia’s foreign minister Alexander Downer oversaw the opening ceremony.The Chinese cultural centre was not only uncontroversial, it was welcomed across the board, former director Mobo Gao recalled.“Politicians on both sides, the business community, the education sector and culture sector all collaborated with us and they all liked our programmes,” said Gao, who ran the institute…

The UK government will have the ability to withdraw or terminate a contract for difference (CfD) if a developer fails to deliver an acceptable supply chain implementation statement (SCIS) under changes to the renewables auction scheme.

An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced hardline Muslim cleric Habib Rizieq Shihab to eight months in prison and fined him 20 million rupiah (US$1,400) for violating coronavirus restrictions by hosting crowded events after his return last year from self-imposed exile in Saudi Arabia.The jailing of Rizieq, who led the now banned Islamist vigilante group, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), was not expected to trigger a violent reaction from his hundreds of thousands of followers “as he will be…

People around the world stayed up on Wednesday to watch a cosmic event called a super blood moon, a combination of a total lunar eclipse and a brighter-than-usual super moon.During the build-up, a glittering moon rose above the horizon. As the Earth’s shadow began taking bites from the moon, it created a dramatic effect. Half the moon vanished, leaving it looking like a black-and-white biscuit.When the full eclipse took hold, however, the moon darkened, turning a smudgy dark orange colour for…

The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) remains an attractive forum for resolving disputes between businesses, regardless of where those companies are based around the world, a report published by the institution has confirmed.