Singapore legislation

Clause 42

of Arbitration Bill

Clause 42

Court may charge property with payment of solicitor’s costs in arbitration

Section 117 of the Legal Profession Act (Cap. 161) (which empowers a Court in which a solicitor has been employed in any proceeding to charge property recovered or preserved in the proceeding with the payment of his costs) shall apply as if an arbitration were a proceeding in the Court, and the Court may make declarations and orders accordingly.