Case Note: The Civil Aviation Authority v The Queen On The Application Of...
Case Note: The Civil Aviation Authority v The Queen On The Application Of Jet2.com Limited [2020] EWCA Civ 35, Legal Professional Privilege and Multi-addressee Electronic Communications For legal...
View ArticleThe Versatility of the Totality Principle
This article focuses on the Totality principle, which requires the court to take a “last look” at all the facts and circumstances and assess whether the sentence looks wrong. First, the article unpacks...
View ArticleBlockchain and Data Protection: Rethinking the Essence and Uses of Blockchain
The use of blockchain to store personal data is a recent illustration of the classic clash between law and technology. Decentralisation and immutability are distinguishing features of blockchain....
View ArticleSpecial Reasons and Driving Disqualification Relating to Third-Party Motor...
This article looks at driving disqualification orders, which are mandatory under section 3 of the Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks and Compensation) Act, unless the offender shows that there are...
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Déjà Vu May Not Mean Disqualification by an Adversary
This article examines and evaluates the underlying circumstances where the lawyer or law firm concerned may be held to owe an equitable duty of confidence to an adversary in Singapore, when acting for...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 from a Restructuring and...
This article looks at the insolvency-related measures under the aegis of the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 that have been implemented to complement the Singapore government’s fiscal response....
View ArticleImmigration Laws in the Time of COVID-19: Perspectives from the Rule of Law
No reasonable lawyer would dispute the severe and unprecedented impact of the recent Covid-19 outbreak on our local legal landscape. Immigration laws are no exception. After the Singapore Government...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Uncertainty in the Air for Contractual Obligations
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), categorised by the World Health Organization as a pandemic on 11 March 2020, has now spread to 215 countries, areas and territories across the world. The...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Pandemics, Artificial Intelligence and Personal Data
How to Manage Pandemics Using AI and What That Means for Personal Data Protection With COVID-19, or the Coronavirus as it is more popularly known, the world is hit with a global pandemic at a time when...
View ArticleLessons from the First Case Under the Administration of Justice (Protection)...
In Wham Kwok Han Jolovan v Attorney-General and other appeals,1(2020) SGCA 16 (‘Jolovan Wham’). a judgment delivered on 16 March 2020, the Court of Appeal (CA) set out the parameters for liability for...
View ArticleHow the Internet is Reshaping Defamation Laws
Defamation is an example of how the common law is continually updating a traditional doctrine to it relevant and applicable in the age of the Internet. Traditional notions of defamation law may not...
View ArticleContext and Meaning in the Interpretation of Statements Under POFMA
Under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 (POFMA), Ministers may issue Directions requiring the correction or takedown of subject statements containing false statements of...
View ArticleConfidential Information: Liability for Mere Possession
The tort of breach of confidence hitherto protected against a tortfeasor wrongfully gaining from the unauthorised use and/or disclosure of confidential information. With the recent decision of the...
View ArticleThe Centrality of Proportionality: A Golden Thread in Sentencing
This article seeks to unpack the Proportionality principle. It also elaborates on the various ways that the Proportionality principle serves as a golden thread in sentencing. Introduction As seen from...
View ArticleA Pause in the Expansion of Vicarious Liability?
An Analysis of Barclays Bank v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13 The doctrine of vicarious liability has undergone dramatic development in recent times and has been extended to scenarios quite different...
View ArticlePerspective of Life as a Young Lawyer
Celebration. Young lawyer, congratulations are in order for reaching this milestone that you have been working so hard for. You have gone through an extremely competitive selection process to get into...
View ArticleWhy Etiquette Matters – Inspirations from C C Tan Award Recipients
“Begin with the end in mind” ‒ Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People1Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic (New York: Free Press,...
View ArticleWhither That Silver Lining
Things may be looking bleak this year, for young and not so young lawyers alike, and across many sectors and industries in the overall economy. However, if we harken back to 2003 and 2008 which was the...
View ArticleRise of the Zoombies
The year is 2020. Decades before this, novice lawyers at the Bar wandered about the office, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, asking their seniors, “What can I do to help?” Now, there is no office to go...
View ArticleThe ABC’s of Choosing a Proper Law: Implied Choice, Contrary Indicia and the...
Examining the Singapore Court of Appeal’s Decision in BNA v BNB and BNC [2020] 1 SLR 456 This article examines the Singapore Court of Appeal’s decision in BNA v BNB and BNC [2020] 1 SLR 456 released on...
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