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07 August 2020
In line with the global shift by major financial centres to risk-free rate-centred approach for interest rate benchmark in expectation of the demise of the scandal tainted USD LIBOR next year, MAS has announced several initiatives to support the adop...
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06 August 2020
In the recent Court of Appeal decision of Ong Keh Choo v Paul Huntington Bernardo and another [2020] SGCA 69, a couple was found to have accepted an onerous Option to Purchase by simply receiving it without qualification.
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27 July 2020
The Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act (“IRDA”) will commence on 30 July 2020. Together with new pieces of subsidiary legislation, the IRDA ensures that Singapore’s insolvency and restructuring laws remain progressive and modern, whilst ba...
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24 July 2020
We are pleased to enclose our Legal Update on the guidance note by the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) issued on 20 July 2020, setting out the CCCS’s approach to collaborations between competitors in relation to the supply of ...
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20 July 2020
In the recent decision of Marex Financial Ltd v Sevilleja [2020] UKSC 31, the UK Supreme Court significantly narrowed the scope of the principle that “reflective loss” cannot be recovered. This update discusses the Marex Financial decision and how it...
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16 July 2020
With increased restrictions on physical meetings as well as an increasingly globalised world, the use of e-signatures is an ever more important part of any toolkit for anyone working with documents of all kinds. However, the use of e-signatures are n...
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07 July 2020
In the recent Bidzina Ivanishvili case, the High Court stayed the action in favour of Switzerland. At the appeal stage, the appellants discontinued claims against one of the defendants. The ensuing amendments to the pleadings, which were granted by t...
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25 June 2020
Drew & Napier IP Managing Director Tony Yeo acts as IP Adjudicator in Rolex S.A. v FMTM Distribution Ltd [2020] SGIPOS 6 and allows opposition against Application Mark on grounds of confusing similarity and passing off under Trade Marks Act.
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24 June 2020
In the recent judgment of USB v USA and another appeal [2020] SGCA 57, the Court of Appeal held that in determining the length of the marriage and assessing parties’ indirect contributions to the marriage for the purposes of division of matrimonial a...
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12 June 2020
The Ministry of Communications and Information and the Personal Data Protection Commission conducted a public consultation from 14 to 28 May 2020 on proposed amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (No. 26 of 2012). A draft Personal Data ...
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