THE Cobbold Commission which preceded the IGC has been characterized by Dr Stanley Bedlington, the Cornell scholar as a “British contrivance activated and organized by British officials.” (Stanley S. Bedlington, Malaysia and Singapore: The Building of New States (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978)
This article is part of a series on conducting arbitration in Malaysia. In particular, it discusses the doctrine of separability, which became part of Malaysian law through section 18(2) of the Arbitration Act 2005, jurisdiction – with regard to the "competence-competence" principle and the interaction of national courts and tribunals – and subjective and objective arbitrability.