No. 2020, January - December 2020
Index
- DISCLOSURE OF THE COMPANY'S PRIVILEGED DOCUMENTS TO SHAREHOLDERS AS AN APPLICATION OF JOINT INTEREST PRIVILEGE
- SELF-DEALING AND NO-PROFIT RULES: COMPANIES ACT 2016
- THE ARB-MED-ARB PROTOCOL
- THE COURTS AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- BERJAYA TIMES SQUARE REVISITED
- BETWEEN TWO SHORES
- Book Review COLLISIONS AT SEA VOLUME 1: LIABILITY AND THE COLLISION REGULATIONS 1 By Harry Hirst
- Book Review ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IN SINGAPORE 1 by Joseph Chun & Lye Lin Heng
- Book Review JUSTICE AND EFFICIENCY IN MEGA-LITIGATION 1 By Anna Olijnyk
- Book Review OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: A LIFE IN WAR, LAW, AND IDEAS 1 By Stephen Budiansky
- Book Review PRACTITIONERS' GUIDE ON DAMAGES AWARDED FOR DEFAMATION CASES IN SINGAPORE 1 Salina Ishak & Clement Julien Tan eds
- Book Review RECTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS 1 by John Tarrant
- Book Review SENTENCING PRINCIPLES IN SINGAPORE 1 By Kow Keng Siong
- Case Comment ASSESSING MENTAL CAPACITY
- Case Note COMPENSATION FOR ABUSED FOREIGN DOMESTIC WORKERS A Problem of Enforcement Tay Wee Kiat v Public Prosecutor [2018] 5 SLR 438; [2019] 5 SLR 1033 In Tay Wee Kiat v Public Prosecutor[2018] 5 SLR 438; [2019] 5 SLR 1033, two offenders who had abused a foreign domestic worker had been ordered to pay her compensation, on pain of a default term of imprisonment. When they failed to pay, the Prosecution applied for the compensation order to be enforced by way of attachment of the offenders' property or garnishment of debts due to the offenders (“garnishment/attachment orders”). The High Court refused to make garnishment/attachment orders on the grounds that (a) the Prosecution had applied for such orders belatedly; and (b) such orders would lead to “undue protraction” of proceedings. This note argues that the High Court erred in so refusing. Compared to relying on default imprisonment terms as the means of enforcing compensation orders, maki
- Case Note SHARE BUY-OUT IN A DEADLOCK SITUATION
- Case Note THE DOCTRINE OF WILFUL BLINDNESS IN DRUG OFFENCES
- Case Note THE LAW ON THE RETRACTION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLEAS
- COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF MUSICAL COPYRIGHT IN A SELF-REGULATED REGIME
- Comment LAWYER'S RESPONSIBILITY NOT TO PURSUE A CLAIM OR APPLICATION OR APPEAL FAVOURED BY THE CLIENT WHERE THE INTEREST OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE WILL BE COMPROMISED The court system is not a marketplace which entitles a lawyer to pick and choose a product for his client regardless of adverse consequences to the latter and the administration of justice. The courts have repeatedly emphasised that the initiation of claims, applications and appeals must be justified by the potential benefit to be gained in the light of proportionate expenditure and the proper use of the court's resources.
- COMPETITION LAW IN MALAYSIA
- CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND SECTION 17A OF THE MALAYSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT
- DISCLOSURE OF THE COMPANY'S PRIVILEGED DOCUMENTS TO SHAREHOLDERS AS AN APPLICATION OF JOINT INTEREST PRIVILEGE
- DOES JUDICIAL MANAGEMENT IN MALAYSIA SUFFICIENTLY EMBODY A RESCUE CULTURE?
- EMPIRICAL STUDY ON APPELLATE INTERVENTION IN MANIFESTLY EXCESSIVE OR INADEQUATE SENTENCES IN SINGAPORE
- FAKE NEWS, FREE SPEECH AND FINDING CONSTITUTIONAL CONGRUENCE
- FINDING CLARITY AMIDST CONFUSION
- ILLEGALLY OBTAINED EVIDENCE IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
- INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE MILITARY
- INTRODUCTION
- Lecture SINGAPORE ACADEMY OF LAW ANNUAL LECTURE 2019 — “JUDICIAL REVIEW IN AUSTRALIA: THE PROTECTION AND POWER OF COURTS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION”
- LEGAL CONSTRAINTS TO TOTAL RETURN INVESTMENT BY TRUSTEES
- REVISITING THE LAW OF CONFIDENCE IN SINGAPORE AND A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TORT OF MISUSE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
- SELF-DEALING AND NO-PROFIT RULES: COMPANIES ACT 2016 1 Past to Present
- SEXUAL GROOMING AS AN OFFENCE IN SINGAPORE
- SINGAPORE ACADEMY OF LAW DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER LECTURE 2019 — “PLAN MEDIATION AS AN EFFECTIVE RESTRUCTURING TOOL”
- SINGAPORE PROPERTY TAX LAW AS IT STANDS
- TECHNICAL DISTINCTIVENESS AND THE STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH
- THE ARB-MED-ARB PROTOCOL
- THE BASIS FOR ORIGINALITY IN PHOTOGRAPHS
- THE COURTS AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- THE DEPUTYSHIP REGIME UNDER SINGAPORE'S MENTAL CAPACITY ACT: AN INTRODUCTION
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF SINGAPORE LAW: A BICENTENNIAL RETROSPECTIVE 1
- THE HAGUE JUDGMENTS CONVENTION
- THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE MALAYSIAN JUDICIARY ADJUDICATING ISLAMIC FINANCE MATTERS