The senior trial court. The Singapore International Commercial Court sits as a division of it, hearing cross-border commercial disputes with a bench that includes international judges and permitting foreign counsel to appear — it is a court, not an arbitral tribunal, and its judgments are enforceable as Singapore judgments. Singapore's law of contract and tort remains closely tied to English common law under the Application of English Law Act.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- appellate
- Court type
- Superior court of first instance
- Jurisdiction
- Unlimited civil and criminal first-instance jurisdiction, judicial review of administrative action, admiralty, insolvency and probate, and appeals from the State Courts.
- Seat
- Singapore
- Established
- 1969
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