(2025) CLU 5 / 09 Dec 2025 Civil Litigation Update (Nov 2025) - When may a further affidavit be filed? Recent case law has significantly clarified the circumstances in which a party may adduce a further affidavit containing supporting evidence or new grounds for the remedy sought. This issue of the CLU looks at the considerations of the court in...
(2025) CLU 5 / 02 Dec 2025 Civil Litigation Update (Nov 2025) - When may a further affidavit be filed? Recent case law has significantly clarified the circumstances in which a party may adduce a further affidavit containing supporting evidence or new grounds for the remedy sought. This issue of the CLU looks at the considerations of the court in...
Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP / 05 Jan 2026 The subtle art of gifting Legacy planning is one of life’s most meaningful yet often overlooked responsibilities. For Muslims, Faraid (Islamic Inheritance Law) provides a comprehensive framework and divine guidance, and should be complemented with practical measures...
Rajah & Tann / 02 Jan 2026 Parliament passes law to prevent misuse of companies, protect shareholders and ease regulatory burden The Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Bill was passed in Parliament on 5 November 2025 and most of the provisions of the Bill are expected to be in force from April 2026 onwards. This update looks at some of the key changes in the Bill...
Singapore Academy of Law / 31 Dec 2025 [SAcLJ]: Imprisonment when an offender cannot pay a fine This article critiques the common-law rule from Low Meng Chay v Public Prosecutor, highlighting the crucial distinction between (a) being sentenced to a fine, then imprisoned in default of payment; and (b) being sentenced to imprisonment....
Singapore Academy of Law / 30 Dec 2025 [SAcLJ]: Athletes at major games and sports competitions: Marketing, advertising restrictions, anti-doping rules and safe sport principles Athletes participating in major games and elite sports competitions are often subject to commercial constraints, regulatory requirements and integrity safeguards. This article examines sports events-related advertising and ambush-marketing...
Rajah & Tann / 23 Dec 2025 Singapore Customs issues circular on full declaration of product information in permit applications The Circular highlights that Customs expects all traders and declaring agents to provide comprehensive declarations of the product information in permit applications and provides guidance on key data fields.
Allen & Gledhill / 06 Jan 2026 Singapore High Court delivers significant decision involving interaction between insolvency and arbitration, and provides important guidance on entire agreement clauses In the recent decision of Kardachi, Jason Aleksander v Deepak Mishra [2025] SGHC 218, the General Division of the High Court of Singapore decided three interlocking applications at the intersection of insolvency, arbitration, and contract law....
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore / 06 Jan 2026 IPOS update on IP/IT dispute resolution in Singapore: November-December 2025 This update covers recent Court decisions and featured articles, events and developments relating to IP/IT dispute resolution in Singapore in November to December 2025.
WongPartnership LLP / 05 Jan 2026 Should proofs of debt be rejected simply because of complexity or parallel or overlapping claims across different insolvent estates? The answer is “no”, following a recent decision by the General Division of the High Court of Singapore which provides welcome guidance on the admission of proofs of debt
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore / 02 Jan 2026 AMP+ Mediation Success: Moniba Ather & Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd [2025] AMP+ MED 4 This mediation between an author of a novel and a digital publishing company presented cultural dynamics, language barriers and logistical hurdles navigated remotely across three jurisdictions (Singapore, Pakistan and China). This case is a...
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore / 30 Dec 2025 AMP+ Mediation: The Beauty Nation Pte. Ltd. & Sin Seng Medical & Herbs Pte. Ltd. and The R.Co Pte. Ltd. [2025] AMP+ MED 3 Two businesses dealing in health products had an IP dispute. The Mediator’s bilingual facilitation stood out as a central element of the session. This demonstrated, in practice, how a Mediator’s language sensitivity is integral to...
Singapore Academy of Law / 29 Dec 2025 [SAcLJ]: “Does this unit have a soul?” AI-generated works, creativity research, and copyright policy This article contends that determining whether copyright protection should apply to AI-generated works requires understanding whether AI is “creative”. If it is a tool, works generated using AI deserve copyright protection. However,...
Singapore Academy of Law / 26 Dec 2025 [SAcLJ]: Building sandcastles at high tide: Contracts in the IP regulation of AI training data Contracts have been proposed to complement copyright law to better regulate the use of data in training AI models. Still, the dynamic between contracts and copyright law in this context remains underexplored. This article examines their...
Allen & Gledhill / 05 Dec 2025 Bioethics Advisory Committee publishes report on ethical, legal, and social issues arising from human nuclear genome editing The report provides guidance to academics, healthcare professionals, researchers, Institutional Review Boards, and Clinical Ethics Committees on the response use of human nuclear genome editing technologies in both biomedical research and...
WongPartnership LLP / 02 Dec 2025 Singapore banking & finance 2025: Trends and developments This update explores the rapid rise of private credit across Asia, the evolution of fund-financing structures such as subscription and NAV facilities, and the expanding role of ESG and blended finance in supporting the region’s transition...
WongPartnership LLP / 18 Nov 2025 SGX RegCo Implements New Measures in a Shift Towards a More Disclosure-based Regime – What Existing SGX Listed Issuers Should Note SGX RegCo has introduced key recommendations from the Equities Market Review Group as part of Singapore’s shift toward a more disclosure-based regime. This update discusses the key post-listing changes.
Singapore Academy of Law / 08 Jan 2026 [SAcLJ]: Copyright ownership and duration of AI-authored works On the assumption that Parliament has endorsed the notion of AI authorship and the prospect that copyright may well subsist in works created autonomously by the AI itself, this article further explores allied issues surrounding the ownership and...
Rajah & Tann / 08 Jan 2026 Singapore and China announce new capital market initiatives and enhanced financial cooperation These measures serve to integrate market infrastructure and position both economies as financial centres of capital formation in Asia.
Singapore Academy of Law / 07 Jan 2026 [SAcLJ]: Copyright in the generative AI era: Reimagining creativity and fairness This article examines copyright challenges posed by generative AI, focusing on authorship criteria, infringement risks, and comparative approaches in the US, China, and Singapore, offering future-looking insights grounded in creativity and...
Singapore Academy of Law / 05 Jan 2026 [SAcLJ]: Mediation for settling climate disputes between individuals and states: Cross-border enforcement of mediated settlement agreements This article explores mediation in climate litigation and assesses cross-border enforcement of settlement agreements under European, international standards and the Singapore Convention, advancing access to justice for victims of climate-related...
Rajah & Tann / 24 Dec 2025 [SAcLJ]: Destination unknown: AI and IP in the digital economy Generative AI has revealed a blind spot in liberal private law, of which intellectual property law is illustrative. This has resulted in a political economy of double extraction: Web 2.0’s attention harvest and model developers’...
Singapore Academy of Law / 08 Jan 2026 [SAcLJ]: Copyright ownership and duration of AI-authored works
Rajah & Tann / 08 Jan 2026 Singapore and China announce new capital market initiatives and enhanced financial cooperation
Singapore Academy of Law / 07 Jan 2026 [SAcLJ]: Copyright in the generative AI era: Reimagining creativity and fairness
Allen & Gledhill / 06 Jan 2026 Singapore High Court delivers significant decision involving interaction between insolvency and arbitration, and provides important guidance on entire agreement clauses
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore / 06 Jan 2026 IPOS update on IP/IT dispute resolution in Singapore: November-December 2025
Singapore Academy of Law / 05 Jan 2026 [SAcLJ]: Mediation for settling climate disputes between individuals and states: Cross-border enforcement of mediated settlement agreements
WongPartnership LLP / 05 Jan 2026 Should proofs of debt be rejected simply because of complexity or parallel or overlapping claims across different insolvent estates?
Rajah & Tann / 02 Jan 2026 Parliament passes law to prevent misuse of companies, protect shareholders and ease regulatory burden
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore / 02 Jan 2026 AMP+ Mediation Success: Moniba Ather & Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd [2025] AMP+ MED 4