Summary

HC/OA 549/2025 ("OA 549") is an application by Q&M Dental Group (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd ("Q&M") to set aside portions of the partial award dated 28 February 2025 ("Partial Award") in respect of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre ("SIAC") Arbitration No 979 of 2020 ("Arbitration"). Q&M also seeks an order that the part of the Partial Award so set aside be tried afresh by a newly appointed arbitrator. This application is made pursuant to Art 34(2)(a)(iii) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (1985) ("Model Law") as set out in the First Schedule to the International Arbitration Act 1994 (2020 Rev Ed) ("IAA") and s 24(b) of the IAA. I dismiss the application for reasons that I set out below.

Arbitration -- Award -- Recourse against award -- Setting aside