Abstract:
At a moment marked by two significant milestones – the 50th anniversary of Prof Frank Sander’s multi-door courthouse vision and the bicentennial arc of Singapore’s legal development – Singapore’s dispute resolution journey invites reflection. Viewed through the prism of Prof Sander’s vision, this article traces Singapore’s transformation from a litigation-centric system to an integrated ecosystem of courts, arbitration, mediation, specialist tribunals and digital platforms. It argues that Singapore’s evolution represents not just procedural diversification but the steady embedding of proportionality, contextuality and user-centred justice as organising principles. Looking ahead, it considers the next phase of reform: a technologically-enabled, multi-platform architecture that preserves legitimacy, fairness and access while reimagining how disputes would be resolved in decades to come.