New civil procedure rules in Singapore
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Adeline Chong joined SMU in November 2007. She was formerly a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Nottingham. She obtained First Class Honours from the University of Birmingham and subsequently was awarded a scholarship to pursue a Ph.D in Nottingham. The thesis looked at the choice of law issues concerning establishing the voidness of a contract and the restitutionary aftermath of voidness. She has published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Journal of Private International Law. She is the co-author of Hill and Chong, International Commercial Disputes: Commercial Conflict of Laws in English Courts (Oxford, Hart, 4th edn, 2010). She is the Project Lead of the Asian Business Law Institute’s project on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Asia. Her work has been cited by the Singapore, Hong Kong, New South Wales and New Zealand Court of Appeals, the Singapore and New Zealand High Courts, the UK Law Commission, as well as in leading texts on conflict of laws such as Dicey, Morris and Collins on the Conflict of Laws (15th edition, 2012). She has also been invited to present papers by the British Association of Canadian Studies, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Kyushu University and the University of Sydney. She has conducted courses for the Attorney-General Chambers of Malaysia and delivered Continuing Professional Development Talks for Singapore’s Attorney-General Chamber’s Academy and the Law Society of Singapore. She has appeared as an expert on Singapore law before a Finnish court and issued a declaration on Singapore law for a US class action. She was awarded the 2013 School of Law Research Excellence Award and was appointed as a Lee Kong Chian Fellow in 2015. She was a recipient of the School of Law’s Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2016, 2018 and 2020.
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The Faculty of Law, Brawijaya University, Indonesia is organizing a one-day international online seminar on Private International Law in Islamic Countries – Developments and Challenges. The main purpose of the seminar is to examine and discuss the current situation of private international law in Islamic countries especially from the point of view of the influence […]
Written by the Asian Business Law Institute and the Permanent Bureau of the HCCH It was
Written by Béligh Elbalti (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics – Osaka University) Introduction Assume that you successfully obtained a favourable judgment from a foreign court that orders the losing party to pay punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. Assume also that, later, you could obtain a partial satisfaction of the amount […]
Written by Professor Yeo Tiong Min, SC (honoris causa), Yong Pung How Chair Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University In Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp v Merck KGaA [2021] SGCA 14, a full bench of the Singapore Court of Appeal addressed the limits of transnational issue estoppel in Singapore […]
Professor Yeo Tiong Min, SC (honoris causa) will be delivering the Yong Pung How Professorship of Law Lecture 2021 on Thursday, 6 May 2021, 5:00 to 6:00 pm (Singapore time). The title of the talk is ‘The Changing Global Landscape for Foreign Judgments.’ The synopsis is as follows: There have been significant advances in the […]
Singapore-based Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI) is jointly holding a webinar with the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) on the HCCH 1970 Evidence Convention and Remote Taking of Evidence by Video-link on Tuesday, 1 June 2021 from 4pm to 5:15pm (SGT) or 10am to 11:15 am (CEST). This event, […]
Written by Marcus Teo (Sheridan Fellow (Incoming), National University of Singapore) Since Foster v Driscoll [1929] 1 KB 470, common law courts have recognised that contracts made with the intention to commit a criminal offence in a foreign state are unenforceable, even if the contract contemplated an alternative mode or place of performance. However, recent […]
Written by Marcus Teo (Sheridan Fellow (Incoming), National University of Singapore) The law in Singapore on Mareva injunctions supporting foreign proceedings is on the move again. The High Court’s recent decision in Allenger v Pelletier [2020] SGHC 279, issued barely a year after the Court of Appeal’s decision in Bi Xiaoqiong v China Medical Technologies […]
Written by Catherine Shen, Project Manager, Asian Business Law Institute The ConflictofLaws.net previously published a short update on the Asian Principles for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Adeline Chong ed, Asian Business Law Institute, 2020) which was released in September 2020. Starting in November 2020, ABLI has been following up that publication […]