DHS | ADR
International Dispute Resolution Centre
Where Conflict Meets Resolution
Mediation | Arbitration | Neutral Evaluation
Three procedures, one standard of neutrality
Each process is administered for parties, counsel and institutions working across borders, languages and legal traditions.
Mediation
Facilitated settlement for commercial parties in different jurisdictions, conducted in person or across time zones.
Arbitration
Sole and tripartite appointments under institutional or ad hoc rules, ending in a reasoned, enforceable award.
Neutral evaluation
An independent, candid assessment of the merits, giving cross-border parties a realistic basis for settlement.
DH Singh
B.Juris, LLB, LLM
President & CEO
DH Singh is an internationally trained lawyer, former South African Attorney and Advocate of the High Court and Constitutional Court of South Africa, legal academic, researcher in complex litigation, practice-management professional and dispute-resolution practitioner. He has approximately three decades of experience in the legal sector across South Africa and Canada.
He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Business Law from the University of Cumbria in England, a Postgraduate Diploma in Constitutional Litigation from the University of Natal, South Africa and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law Practice Management from the University of Cape Town, School for Advanced Legal Studies, where he studied on a full scholarship awarded by the Natal Law Society. He earned his B.Juris and LL.B. degrees at the University of Durban-Westville.
DH was admitted as an Attorney of the South African courts in 1996 and subsequently as an Advocate in 1997. As founder of D.H. Singh Incorporated Attorneys-at-Law, he conducted more than 200 civil and criminal trials, developing substantial experience in courtroom advocacy, examination and cross-examination of witnesses, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution. His connection with law and public service began considerably earlier. In 1990, while studying law at the University of Durban-Westville, DH was elected President of the Law Students Council and The Chief Electoral Officer of the SRC. He participated in inter-university conferences concerning constitutional reform, electoral systems, student governance and the peaceful resolution of institutional disputes during the final years of apartheid.
While undertaking postgraduate studies at the University of Cape Town, DH also served as Prosecutor before the University Student Discipline Tribunal, dealing with serious disciplinary proceedings involving institutional rules and student conduct.
His involvement in student leadership, Lawyers for Human Rights and wider civil-society initiatives brought him into contact with some of the leading personalities in South Africa’s democratic and constitutional transformation, including President Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Denis Hurley, Justice John Didcott and Justice Albie Sachs, who served as the country’s first Judge President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Justice John M. Didcott later provided a supporting reference for DH in connection with a successful scholarship application to the Educational Opportunities Council that was established during the Apartheid era.
After immigrating to Canada, DH developed extensive experience in Canadian litigation, working with boutique Personal Injury Law Firms, particularly assisting in serious and catastrophic personal injury litigation, statutory accident benefits, tort claims, medical and expert evidence, complex legal research and litigation strategy. Since 2014, his work has increasingly focused on law practice management, complex legal research, knowledge management, litigation strategy, legal technology and the responsible use of artificial intelligence in legal services.
These experiences ultimately shaped his approach to dispute resolution: that justice should not be measured merely by the ability to fight a case, but by the ability to understand the dispute, identify what truly matters, and find a principled path toward resolution.
Through DHS ADR – International Dispute Resolution Centre, DH brings together decades of legal experience, advocacy, research, negotiation, practice management and emerging technology to promote a modern approach to mediation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.
International expertise in complex disputes
DHS|ADR sits at the point where commercial disagreement meets more than one legal system.
The centre acts in cross-border matters from Toronto, New York and London, and much of the work involves parties, counsel and governing law drawn from different jurisdictions at once. That means reading a contract against the commercial expectations of the people who signed it, accommodating counsel who practise under distinct procedural traditions, and scheduling around genuine differences of time zone and language. The outcome is a process the parties recognise as workable rather than one imposed from a single national template.
Confidential by construction
Proceedings are private, and the record of them stays with the parties. Nothing said in a mediation session travels beyond the room, and material exchanged for the purpose of resolution is handled on that footing throughout.
Measured, not adversarial
Each matter is scoped before it begins: the issues in genuine dispute, the documents that actually bear on them, and a timetable the parties can hold to. Pace is set by the complexity of the question, not by the volume of correspondence around it.
Where We Work
Across two continents and through VIRTUAL ADR, DHS|ADR offers flexible in-person and online forums for mediation, arbitration and neutral evaluation. Our approach is designed to bring the resolution process closer to the parties, counsel and evidence, wherever the dispute arises.
Toronto
Jurisdiction
Ontario and Canadian federal matters
Our principal chambers and the usual seat for North American commercial mediations and arbitrations conducted in English or any other language using interpreters.
New York
Jurisdiction
United States and inter-American matters
A hearing base for disputes with a United States nexus, where parties, counsel and expert witnesses can convene without transatlantic travel.
London
Jurisdiction
England and Wales, and wider international work
Our European seat for cross-border arbitration and neutral evaluation, close to the institutions and counsel that shape international practice.