The Client’s Mental Capacity to Litigate – A Few Pointers on Practice
In recent times, an increasingly common issue for advocates and solicitors is the issue of whether their clients have the capacity to commence and or continue litigation proceedings. This issue poses...
View ArticleNot Really a Case of Everything Everywhere All at Once: Trademarks and the...
This article highlights how the development of the metaverse and the proliferation of collectible non-fungible tokens can have significant implications for trademark law. Introduction The metaverse...
View ArticleRemaining Issues for Direct Contributions Under the Presumption of Resulting...
This article examines the lesser known types of costs that are potentially direct contributions under a presumption of resulting trust, namely (a) renovation or repair costs; and (b) legal fees and...
View ArticleThe Unique Nature of the Charitable Trust
Lessons from Lian Chee Kek Buddhist Temple v Ong Ai Moi and others [2023] SGHC 172 Cases relating to charitable trusts do not frequently come before the courts in Singapore. This article examines the...
View ArticleIntention – A Third Way to Transform Gifts and Inheritances into Matrimonial...
CLC V CLB [2023] 1 SLR 1260 (CLC) and Its Impact on Inter-Spousal Gifts This article examines (a) the circumstances in which gifts and Inheritances (normally excluded assets) can fall into the...
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Generative AI
An Evaluation of the Current Solutions to Address the Intellectual Property Challenges it Generates The risks of generative AI – such as copyright infringement issues, privacy issues, hallucinations –...
View ArticleEstate Administration of Expatriates with Multi-jurisdictional Assets
Bridging Civil and Common Law Expatriates own assets in multiple countries. When they pass away, their multi-jurisdictional estates must be administered and distributed. This article shows how the...
View ArticleRound Up of Significant Legal Developments in AI for 2023
And What’s Ahead for 2024 This article identifies the three key developments for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2023, and the trends we expect to see next year as a natural extension of the issues...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of Aparna Donti
An Inconsistency in the IRDA A recent case in the High Court has highlighted an inconsistency in sections 367 and 368 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (IRDA) relating to...
View ArticleNavigating the Digital Afterlife: Estate Planning for Your Online Presence
In a world where our online lives are as rich as our offline ones, what happens to our digital presence when we are gone? We examine how current estate planning laws do not amply deal with how digital...
View ArticleAdmiralty Practice and Malaysian Admiralty Court – A Comparative View
This article gives an overview of the Malaysian Admiralty Court set up in 2010 as well as the law and practice of Ship Arrests in Malaysia. The article also provides some key differences from the...
View ArticleMaking Headways with Geographical Indications Protection in Singapore
In Singapore, recent prominent cases under the Geographical Indications Act 2014 (GI), have drawn attention to the Singapore Courts’ stance on the protection of geographical indications (GIs) and how...
View ArticleLiability for AI-generated Content
This article explores liability for text and image content produced by generative AI. In the case of wrong output, or hate speech/toxic output – who should be responsible (given the many parties...
View ArticleByers v Saudi National Bank: The Evolving Landscape of Knowing Receipt
This article discusses key takeaways from the UK Supreme Court decision in Byers v Saudi National Bank on the law of knowing receipt, possible implications of Byers v Saudi National Bank on Singapore’s...
View ArticleThe Law on Creditors’ Interests and Directors’ Fiduciary Duties in Singapore
Answers from the Present and Questions for the Future This article examines the law on when directors’ fiduciary duties to act in the best interests of the company are modified to require the interests...
View ArticleTo Be Mutually Agreed or Not to Be Mutually Agreed
Pitfalls of Lease Renewal Clauses A recent case in the High Court has provided new insights into the law concerning lease renewals. This article discusses how to approach reviewing lease agreements,...
View ArticleFrom Liberty to Liability: Shifting Sands in Singapore’s Internet Governance
The growing concern over online harms has become a pressing issue both internationally and within Singapore, leading to a heightened sense of urgency among governments to find effective regulatory...
View ArticleRingfencing Financial Uncertainty in a Dispute and in an M&A Transaction
Litigation is never certain, they can escalate, drain financial reserves, and impact profitability. The uncertainty in duration, costs and sums involved make it challenging for businesses to plan and...
View ArticleTug of War: Executive Bodies’ Investigative Powers vs Judicial Independence
An Analysis of the Malaysian Federal Court’s decision in Haris Fathillah by Dato’ Edwin Paramjothy Michael Muniandy Judges are not, and should not be, immune from investigation and prosecution for...
View ArticleFederated Learning: What Lawyers Need to Know
This article analyses some of the legal issues raised by Federated Learning (FL) – a method to train algorithms for artificial intelligence systems, on data held across different data sets, without...
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