新加坡法下仲裁协议的效力研究

仲裁协议的效力由其所适用的法律决定,不同国家或地区的法律在认定仲裁协议的法律效力时所采取的标准亦有所区别.从新加坡有关仲裁协议的成文法规范出发,结合新加坡法院就仲裁协议法律效力争议所作的判例,在研究新加坡法院对“病理性仲裁协议”效力认定时所采取的基本原则后,认为新加坡法律具有“亲仲裁”特性.这是新加坡在国际商事仲裁和国际海事仲裁领域取得令人瞩目发展成果的重要原因之一.

Study on the effectiveness of an arbitration agreement under Singapore law

The effectiveness of an arbitration agreement is determined by its governing law. The law of different countries or regions usually applies different criteria when finding the legal effectiveness of an arbitration agreement. By introducing Sin- gapore＇ s statutory provisions relating to the arbitration agreement and the cases of the disputes on the legal effectiveness of an arbitration agreement made by Singapore courts, and after studying on the basic principle used by Singapore courts to find the legal effectiveness of a ＂pathological arbitration agreement＂, this paper views that the Singapore law has the characteristic of ＂pro-arbitration＂ which is one of the crucial reasons that Singapore makes a great development on the international commercial arbitration and international maritime arbitration.