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08 August 2019
The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Amendment) Bill and Reciprocal Enforcement of Commonwealth Judgments (Repeal) Bill were introduced in Parliament on 5 August 2019. This article discusses the changes which these Bills are expected to b...
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05 August 2019
Common Reporting Standard (CRS) audits by the IRAS will commence in the second half of 2019. The IRAS will be focusing on financial institutions that pose a higher risk of non-compliance. Their review methodology entails an internal controls audit at...
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01 August 2019
On 20 December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to adopt the UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation. This brings to fruition three years of discussions with participation from 85 mem...
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31 July 2019
In the recent decision of Anan Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd v VTB Bank (Public Joint Stock Co) [2019] SGCA 41, the Court of Appeal allowed an application to adduce fresh evidence for an appeal against a winding-up order. It laid out a two-step analysis...
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25 July 2019
As the invited authors of the Singapore Chapter in The International Comparative Legal Guide to Data Protection 2019, the Data Protection and Privacy Practice Group shares updates on Singapore’s personal data protection framework as well as rec...
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19 July 2019
Last week, the Court of Appeal in Yap Chen Hsiang Osborn v PP [2019] SGCA 40, had the opportunity to clarify that secondary offenders (ie someone who does not himself commit the offence from which the proceeds were originally derived but launders the...
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17 July 2019
In the recent decision of Far East Square Pte Ltd v Yau Lee Construction (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2019] SGCA 36, the Court of Appeal held that the “duty to speak” via a payment response provided under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Pa...
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15 July 2019
In Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32, the UK Supreme Court recently upheld that a covenant prohibiting a former employee from having shareholding in a competing business was unreasonably wide, but enforced the covenant after it decided that t...
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15 July 2019
This update examines whether the rules of various arbitral institutions impose different standards for summary dismissal.
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12 July 2019
On 11 July 2019, the Singapore Exchange Regulation announced various amendments to the voluntary delisting regime, which took immediate effect. The amendments are intended to provide minority shareholders with greater protection and a better exit off...
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