Singapore’s common law-origin corporate law regime ranks highly on corporate law and governance indices and is administered in part by superior courts served by judges with significant commercial expertise. As part of the Singapore Academy of Law’s Annual Review of Cases, this Paper reviews...

To the growing list of recent significant cases on insolvency set-off may be added the decision of the Singapore Court of Appeal in Good Property Land Development Pte Ltd v Societe Generale. ... In the High Court [[1996] 1 SLR 457], Chao J held that the surplus proceeds held on trust by the...

Buy now pay later ("BNPL") arrangements refer to arrangements that allow consumers to pay for goods over time while receiving such goods as if payment was made upfront. The market for BNPL arrangements in Singapore is growing rapidly, with many providers of such arrangements entering and...

Managing the outbreak of infectious diseases is a major public health imperative for the small island-state of Singapore. In this paper, we discuss and assess the Singaporean government’s public health measures to combat the 2003 SARS and the 2009 H1N1 pandemics. Crucially, the government...