Strengthening Partnerships

4TH MEETING OF THE STANDING INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF COMMERCIAL COURTS

The Fourth Meeting of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC) was hosted by the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Sydney on 20 and 21 October 2022. Over 100 judges met physically during the meeting, which was also live-streamed for participants who were unable to attend in person.

In his keynote address, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon discussed the part played by the SIFoCC as a cornerstone of a transnational system of commercial justice.

Judges from the SIFoCC member countries, including Chief Justice Menon (right, delivering his keynote address), met in Sydney for its fourth full meeting in October 2022.

The meeting considered four main work themes:

• Theme 1 was ‘Towards an Integrated System of Dispute Resolution: Commercial Courts, Arbitration and Mediation’. Chief Justice Menon co-chaired the judicial roundtable for this theme.
• Theme 2 was ‘Managing Complexity, and the ‘Complexification’ of Disputes’.
• Theme 3 was ‘The Future for Corporate Legal Responsibility, Purpose and Governance with a Focused Lens on Climate Change’. Justice Philip Jeyaretnam delivered closing observations for the judicial roundtable for this theme.
• Theme 4 was ‘Jurisdictional Conflicts Internationally’. Justice Kannan Ramesh delivered closing observations for the judicial roundtable for this theme.