新加坡扣船新发展——评新加坡上诉庭the“Bunge Melati 5”案

The latest development of ship arrest in Singapore——a review of the "Burge Melati 5" decreed by the Singapore's Court of Appeal

长久以来,对新加坡扣船的条件和相关证明标准没有形成统一认识,当事人在扣船案件中经常产生争议。在介绍新加坡扣船案例——the"Bunge Melati 5"案的基础上,回顾了新加坡扣船应适用的法律条文规定,结合相关法律条文规定和新加坡上诉庭2008年所作重要扣船判例the"Vasiliy Golovnin"案,厘清了新加坡上诉庭在本案判决中阐述的索赔人在新加坡申请扣船应采取的五个基本步骤及其相应的证明标准。最后,对新加坡扣船应履行的披露义务和错误扣船损害赔偿责任认定标准进行了简要讨论,并得出结论:出于维护全球扣船中心的地位和避免法院陷入大量无依据扣船案件的泥潭的目的,新加坡法院通过这些案例对扣船争议中当事人的权利和义务进行平衡。

Parties often have relevant disputes in a ship arrest case due to lack of uniform understanding of the requirements and test of ship arrest in Singapore. This paper first introduced the latest case relating to ship arrest in Singapore, namely the ＂Burge Melati 5＂ as decreed by Singapore＇ s Court of Appeal and reviewed the relevant legislations applicable to ship arrest in Singapore. Then on the basis of the ship arrest regulations and the ＂Vasiliy Golovnin＂ case made by Singapore＇s Court of Appeal in 2008, this paper clarified the five general steps and relevant tests that should be taken by the claimants for the pur- pose of arrest of ships in Singapore, which were stated in the judgment of this case. Finally, this paper reviewed the disclo- sure obligation and the test of wrongful arrest in Singapore. This paper came to a conclusion on the above discussion that the Singapore court established a balance of the parties＇ rights and obligations in a ship arrest case through these cases, for the purpose of maintaining its position as a global center of ship arrest and meanwhile preventing its court from numerous unsus- tainable ship arrest cases.