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The strategic plans
of the Academy are:
expand the Singapore
legal industry; grow
and showcase
Singapore’s
jurisprudence and
thought leadership;
provide and/or
facilitate knowledge
management;
contribute to
developing laws and
a legal system for a
globalised city; and
build core expertise
for legal practice
outside Singapore.
The
Steering Committee
on Strategic
Direction
implements the
approved strategic
plans of the
Academy. The
Strategic Direction
Directorate of the
Academy provides
oversight over the
structures and
programmes of the
Academy to ensure
alignment with these
plans.
In 2007, the
Strategic Direction
Directorate
initiated and led
the development of
Singapore Law Watch
, a daily legal news
syndication site
which has attracted
a continuously
increasing
viewership since its
launch in January
2008. This serves as
a “central
librarian” and is
useful to the
smaller law firms
that do not have the
resources to build
dedicated knowledge
management
facilities.
To advance the
strategic plan to
expand the Singapore
legal industry, the
Strategic Direction
Directorate produced
a brochure entitled
Singapore: Your
Partner for Legal
Solutions in Asia.
This was launched in
August 2008 at the
Academy’s 20th
Anniversary
Appreciation Dinner.
The Strategic
Direction
Directorate also led
an initiative,
subsequently driven
by the International
Promotion of
Singapore Law
Directorate, to
create a system for
selecting and
disseminating key
Singapore judgments
for publication in
reputable law
reports and journals
overseas. It also
steered the
inception of a
summer school
programme which
seeks to introduce
Singapore law and
its commercial
relevance to foreign
lawyers. A
“soft-launch”
version of the
Summer School was
created and put
forth in 2008 by the
Legal Education and
Studies Committee
in the form of an
Executive Programme
on Business
Valuation for Legal
Professionals,
dealing with the
topic of “Business
Valuation, Financial
Instruments and
Securities
Regulation”. This
was a sell-out
programme,
attracting
commercial lawyers
from both Singapore
and the region who
sought a deeper
understanding of the
interaction of
financial and legal
disciplines in
business lawyering. |
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