Published twice a year since 1989, the Singapore Academy of Law Journal contains articles relating to Singapore law as well as Asia-Pacific and common law legal systems, and comparative and international law. Articles are anonymously reviewed by a panel of local and international legal scholars and practitioners. Contributors include Singaporean and foreign judges, lawyers, legal officers and academics.

Specially commissioned Issues of SAcLJ on a core area of law are also published regularly. Special Issues on Contract Law (Guest Editor: Professor Michael Furmston), Shipping Law (Guest Editor: Professor Francis Reynolds), Insolvency Law (Guest Editor: Professor Gerard McCormack) and Land Law (Guest Editor: Professor Kevin Gray) have been published with articles contributed by foreign and local leading names in the area of law.
 
 
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collapse 2010 (Volume 22) March

Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (Allen Lane, 2009)

The Honourable Justice Choo Han Teck
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Banks and Exclusion of Losses for Forged Cheques – Is it Reasonable?

Sandra Annette Booysen
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Choice of Law in Forum Non Conveniens Analysis: Puttick v Tenon Ltd [2008] HCA 54

Teo Guan Siew

Decriminalising Physician-assisted Suicide in Singapore

Toh Puay San & Stanley Yeo
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Meaning of “Dispute” in Arbitration Agreements: Tjong Very Sumito v Antig Investments [2009] 4 SLR(R) 732

Chong Yee Leong & Melissa Chen
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Passing Off of Well-known Trade Marks: Novelty Pte Ltd v Amanresorts Ltd [2009] 3 SLR(R) 216

Lau Kok Keng
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Protection of Well-known Marks: Mobil Petroleum Co, Inc v Hyundai Mobis [2009] SGCA 38

Yap Siew Leng
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Securing and Maintaining the Independence of the Court in Judicial Proceedings

The Honourable the Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong

Tax Avoidance in Singapore – A Critical Analysis

Lau Kah Hee
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The Duties of a Trust Enforcer

Tsun Hang Tey

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The New International Arbitration (Amendment) Bill – A Broader Framework for Interim Relief or Just a Tune-up?

Mahdev Mohan & Tay Eu-Yen
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Whether a Singapore Court has a Discretion to Exclude Evidence Admissible in Criminal Proceedings

Jeffrey Pinsler SC
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collapse 2010 (Volume 22) Land Law Special Issue

Collective Sales in Singapore - Selected Issues

Teo Keang Sood
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Compulsory Acquisition of Land in Singapore - A Fair Regime?

Bryan Chew, Vincent Hoong, Tay Lee Koon and Manimegalai d/o Vellasamy
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Introduction

Kevin Gray

Land Law and the Environment - Re-examining the Concept of Ownership and Forging New Rights and Obligations in a Changed World

Lye Lin Heng
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Proprietary Estoppel - Recent Developments in England and Wales

Brian Sloan
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Real Estate Investment Trusts in Singapore - Recent Legal and Regulatory Developments and the Case for Corporatisation

Lee Suet Fern and Linda Esther Foo
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The Constructive Trust in Singapore - Five Persistent Puzzles

Tang Hang Wu
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Whither Torrens Title in Singapore?

Barry C Crown
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collapse 2009 (Volume 21) September

Balancing Patents and Access to Medicine

Elizabeth Siew Kuan Ng
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Clarity in the Law of Valid, Void and Voidable Non-Muslim Marriages: Tan Ah Thee (administrators of the estate of Tan Kiam Poh (alias Tan Gna Chua), deceased) v Lim Soo Foong [2009] SGHC 101

Leong Wai Kum
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En Bloc Sales in Singapore – Critical Developments in the Law

Ter Kah Leng
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Interim Measures in Aid of Foreign Arbitrations – Time for the Deus Ex Machina?

Lye Kah Cheong, Yeo Chuan Tat and Choo Zheng Xi
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Recent Developments in Common Intention: Lee Chez Kee v PP [2008] 3 SLR 447

Nathaniel Yong-Ern Khng and Chen Siyuan
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Remarks, More Remarks and a Grounds of Decision – One Judgment too Many? T T Durai v Public Prosecutor (Magistrate's Appeal No 126 of 2007)

S Chandra Mohan

Reservation of Settlor's Powers

Tey Tsun Hang
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Singapore Academy of Law Annual Lecture 2009 – "The Development of the Common Law in Hong Kong under 'One Country, Two Systems'"

Chief Justice Andrew Li
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The Company and its Directors as Co-conspirators

Lee Pey Woan
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The New Moneylenders Act 2008 – A Lost Opportunity?

Sandra Annette Booysen
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Void Contracts and the Applicability of Choice of Law Clauses to Consequential Restitutionary Claims: CIMB Bank Bhd v Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd [2008] 4 SLR 543

Adeline Chong
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collapse 2009 (Volume 21) March

Dealing with Employee Crimes

Ravi Chandran

Last Flight of the Eagle: New Principles Governing the Setting Aside of Judgments in Default

Jeffrey Pinsler SC
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Letters of Wishes

Tey Tsun Hang
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Recent Developments in Intoxication, Private Defence and Right to Counsel: Tan Chor Jin v PP

Chua Hui Han, Eunice
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Reforming Illegality in Private Law

Tey Tsun Hang
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Remaking the Evidence Code: Search for Values

Chin Tet Yung
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Revisiting the High Court's Revisionary Jurisdiction to Enhance Sentences in Criminal Cases

K Muralidharan Pillai & Luo Qinghui
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Singapore Academy of Law Annual Lecture 2008: "Growth of Public Interest Litigation in India"

Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan
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Singapore Human Rights Practice and Legal Policy: Of Pragmatism and Principle, Rights, Rhetoric and Realism

Thio Li-ann
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Statutory Interpretation in Singapore: 15 Years on from Legislative Reform

Goh Yihan
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The Historical Origins and Contemporary Evolution of International Human Rights Law: Retrospect and Prospect

Thio Li-ann
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 60: Universality, Indivisibility and the Three Generations of Human Rights

Thio Li-ann
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White-collar Crime in Singapore: Then and Now

K Anparasan
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collapse 2008 (Volume 20) September

Criminal Law in Malaysia and Singapore (by Stanley Yeo, Neil Morgan and Chan Wing Cheong)

Sylvia Lim
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Ethics in Chamber Hearings: Observations on Certain Practices

Jeffrey Pinsler SC

Interim Measures in Aid of Foreign Arbitration - A Re-Think - Swift-Fortune Ltd v Magnifica Marine SA

Andrew Chan & Renita Sophia Crasta
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Knowing, Not Knowing and Almost Knowing: Knowledge and the Doctrine of Mens Rea

Toh Yung Cheong
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Murder: The Abnormal Mind - Mad or Just Bad

Michael Hor
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Natural Justice: A Case for Uniform Rigour - Ho Paul v Singapore Medical Council; Kay Swee Pin v Singapore Island Country Club

Chen Siyuan & Lionel Leo

Pre-commencement Discovery and the Odex Litigation: Copyright Versus Confidentiality or is it Privacy?

George Wei Sze Shun
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Pushing the Limits of Judicial Assistance in Cross-border Insolvencies - In re HIH Casualty and General Insurance Ltd; Cambridge Gas v Navigator Holdings

Teo Guan Siew
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Show Cause Proceedings before the Court of Three Judges: Some Procedural Questions - The Law Society of Singapore v Bay Puay Joo Lilian

Goh Yihan
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The Effective Reach of Choice of Law Agreements

Yeo Tiong Min
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collapse 2008 (Volume 20) March

A Man's Home is [Not] His Castle - En Bloc Collective Sales in Singapore

Ter Kah Leng
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A Persisting Aberration: The Movement to Enforce Agreements to Mediate

Lye Kah Cheong
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Amalgamation - New Method to Merge and Take-over Companies

Wee Meng Seng
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Anti-diversion Measures under the TRIPS Protocol on Public Health - A Commentary

Alvin Sim Kia Hong
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Cross-border Insolvency and Transfers of Liquidation Estates from Ancillary Proceedings to the Principal Place of Bankruptcy

Hans Tjio & Wee Meng Seng
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Establishing a Duty of Care: Singapore's Single, Two-stage Test - Spandeck Engineering (S) Pte Ltd v Defence Science & Technology Agency

Louis Joseph
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Litigation and the Client's Right to Make an Informed Choice

Jeffrey Pinsler SC

Singapore Academy of Law Annual Lecture 2007: "Australia's Contribution to the Common Law"

Murray Gleeson AC QC
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The Duty of Care in Collective Sales of Strata Developments

Glen Koh
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The Final Payment in a Construction Contract: Pressures on Account Finalisation - Tiong Seng Constractors (Pte) Ltd v Chuan Lim Construction Pte Ltd

Chow Kok Fong
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Trust Protector

Tey Tsun Hang
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Who Left the Gates Unlocked? Reconciling the Duties of Auditors and Company Directors

Ang Cheng Hock & Kenneth Lim Tao Chung

collapse 2008 (Volume 20) (Insolvency Law) Special Issue

Alternatives to Bankruptcy - The Debt Repayment Scheme ("DRS")

See Kee Oon
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At the Intersection of Property and Insolvency: The Insolvent Company's Encumbered Assets

Rizwaan Jameel Mokal
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Balancing Competing Interests in Bankruptcy: Discharge by Certificate of the Official Assignee in Singapore

S Chandra Mohan
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Conflict of Laws in Insolvency Transaction Avoidance

Ho Look Chan
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Corporate Rescue Law in Singapore and the Appropriateness of Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code as a Model

Gerard McCormack

Duties of a Mortgagee and a Receiver: Where Singapore Should and Should Not Follow English Law

Wee Meng Seng
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Insolvent Banks and the Financial Sector Safety Net - Lessons from the Northern Rock Crisis

Andrew Campbell
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Personal Insolvency Law and the Challenges of a Dynamic, Enterprise-Driven Economy

David Milman
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The 2006 PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law: The Wait is Finally Over

Charles D Booth
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The Duty to Maintain Equality in Collective Creditor Actions

Lee Eng Beng SC
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collapse 2007 (Volume 19) Part II

A Clarion Call To Lawyers To Be "Unflinchingly Loyal" To Their Clients

Jeffrey Pinsler

Arbitrators' Conflicts Of Interest: Bias By Any Name

Chan Leng Sun
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Creditors And The Principle Of Reflective Loss

Victor C S Yeo
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Defining The Fault Elements Of Driving Offences

Neil Morgan & Stanley Yeo
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Nature And Liability Shield Of Limited Liability Partnerships In Singapore

Yeo Hwee Ying
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Prenuptial Agreements And Foreign Matrimonial Agreements: TQ V TR

Debbie Ong Siew Ling

Reforming Capital Maintenance Law: The Companies (Amendment) Act 2005

Wee Meng Seng
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The Case For Sports Law Arbitration And Practice In Singapore

Warren B Chik
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Writing A Persuasive Appellate Brief

Paul Tan
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collapse 2007 (Volume 19) Part I

Are REITs green? : An environmental analysis of real estate investment trust law in Singapore

Joseph Chun
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Clarifying impossible attempts and criminal conspiracies

Stanley Yeo
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Contempt of court and the liability of lawyers

Ang Cheng Hock
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Extending the scope of legal advice privilege

Chin Tet Yung
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Financial assistance: The case for re-examining Section 76 of the companies act

Wan Wai Yee
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Further developments to the fairchild exception and extent of negligence liability

Ter Kah Leng

Inadvertence as rashness

Toh Yung Cheong
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Minority shareholders' rights and remedies

Michael Ewing-Chow
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Recent developments in electronic discovery: Discovering electronic documents and discovering documents electronically

Yeong Zee Kin

Singapore Legislation: Digest of Acts passed between 1 September 2006 and 28 February 2007 (Correct as at 15 June 2007)

Emily Teo & Joyce Chng
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The workplace safety and health act: An overview

Ravi Chandran
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collapse 2006 (Volume 18) Part III

Enforcing english jurisdiction clauses in bills of lading

Yvonne Baatz
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Introduction

Francis Reynolds

Judicial assistance in maritime arbitration: A Singapore perspective

Toh Kian Sing
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Rights under bills of lading: Trawling through Singapore waters

David Chong Gek Sian
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