Legal Updates & Publications
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27 March 2020
In Parliament yesterday afternoon, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat stated that the Singapore Government is presently studying the issue of providing people relief from legal obligations which have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. A set of meas...
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04 March 2020
The Singapore Exchange Regulation (“SGX RegCo”) has announced that it will grant a time extension of up till 30 June 2020 (“Waiver”) for issuers (irrespective of their place of business or operations) which fulfill certain criteria to hold their annu...
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03 March 2020
Businesses are looking to their contracts and agreements to find ways to escape liability for non-performance. One question which businesses continue to be concerned with is this – is COVID-19 a ‘force majeure’ event, a frustrating event, or simply f...
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02 March 2020
In the recent decision of Hai Jiao 1306 Ltd and others v Yaw Chee Siew [2020] SGHC (I) 3, the Singapore International Commercial Court ordered that adverse inferences be drawn against an individual who had failed to comply with an earlier Court order...
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28 February 2020
The launch of the Variable Capital Companies legislation in January 2020 facilitates Singapore fund managers in re-domiciling their offshore investment fund as a Singapore variable capital company. This Update sets out some of its salient legal consi...
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25 February 2020
Cryptocurrency is relatively novel and the applicable legal principles remain unsettled. One fundamental question is whether cryptocurrency constitutes “property”. This update briefly considers these cases and other unresolved issues.
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18 February 2020
As AI becomes increasingly ubiquitous, it becomes ever more important to ensure that questions of liability are addressed – preferably before things go wrong. This article looks at the use of AI in common everyday commercial or consumer use, and prop...
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14 February 2020
The Court of Appeal recently held in Anil Singh Gurm v JS Yeo & Co and another [2020] SGCA 5 that an overseas witness’s unwillingness to travel, by itself, is not determinative of an application for leave for the witness to testify via video link.
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13 February 2020
On 7 February 2020, the Ministry of Health (MOH) raised the Disease Outbreak Response System Condition or DORSCON from Yellow to Orange. The MOH has also additional control measures to prevent the risk of further transmission of the 2019 Novel Corona...
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13 February 2020
The Singapore Exchange Regulation has announced that it will grant a time extension of up till 30 June 2020 (“Waiver”) for issuers which fulfill certain criteria to hold their annual general meetings to approve their 31 December 2019 financial result...
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