In SME Care Pte Ltd v Jannie Chan Siew Lee [2025] SGHC 27, the Singapore High Court held a bankrupt ex-director of a company personally liable to the company for failing to take steps to recover sums owed by third parties to the company. This update takes a brief look at the key takeaways from the decision.
The Energy Market Authority (“EMA”) recently conducted a public consultation on proposed modifications to the auto-renewal practice in the retail electricity market to enhance consumer awareness of auto-renewal provisions in electricity retail contracts. This includes modifications to the proposed wording to EMA’s Code of Conduct for Retail Electricity Licensees.
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is advancing rapidly, transforming industries and societies. As a jurisdiction at the forefront of AI development, Singapore stands at the crossroads of this nascent but fast evolving sector, where the need for a thoughtful, robust regulatory framework is apparent. This article considers the risk based approach within Singapore’s regulatory landscape, exploring in detail the principle of accountability embedded therein. It goes on to posit the future direction of AI regulation and governance in Singapore, highlighting key considerations that must be taken into account in developing and refining any formal regulatory regime.
In SME Care Pte Ltd v Jannie Chan Siew Lee [2025] SGHC 27, the Singapore High Court held a bankrupt ex-director of a company personally liable to the company for failing to take steps to recover sums owed by third parties to the company. This update takes a brief look at the key takeaways from the decision.
The Energy Market Authority (“EMA”) recently conducted a public consultation on proposed modifications to the auto-renewal practice in the retail electricity market to enhance consumer awareness of auto-renewal provisions in electricity retail contracts. This includes modifications to the proposed wording to EMA’s Code of Conduct for Retail Electricity Licensees.
It was predicted that remote hearings would be conducted less frequently after the COVID-19 pandemic, because such hearings did not allow witnesses to be confronted face‑to‑face, were perceived to be informal and made it difficult to observe body signals of witnesses. This article discusses why these reasons are not tenable. Further, it highlights the case law and relevant provisions in the Courts (Civil and Criminal Justice) Reform Act 2021 (Act 25 of 2021) pertaining to remote hearings and recommends procedural reforms to increase the use of video conferencing technology, to enhance the administration of, and access to, justice.
A committee to enhance Singapore's corporate restructuring and insolvency regime was convened by the Ministry of Law to provide recommendations to further enhance Singapore’s corporate debt restructuring and insolvency framework. The Committee has recently released its report which is open to the public’s feedback until 8 April 2025. This update summarises the report.
The Energy Market Authority (“EMA”) recently conducted a public consultation on proposed modifications to the auto-renewal practice in the retail electricity market to enhance consumer awareness of auto-renewal provisions in electricity retail contracts. This includes modifications to the proposed wording to EMA’s Code of Conduct for Retail Electricity Licensees.
Climate disputes – which form a distinct and increasingly important category of disputes – have particular needs and give rise to particular challenges. Traditional adversarial models of adjudication will often not be best suited to providing the most suitable or meaningful resolution of these disputes, or to addressing the real problems that underlie them. This article suggests that a bespoke model of justice – informed by the concept of therapeutic justice – should be developed for climate disputes, to ensure that they are managed and resolved in a way that meaningfully addresses the wider interests and the deeper issues at stake. Such a model should be restorative, holistic, interest-based and forward-looking, and would mark a shift from a singular focus on the adjudication of rights and wrongs to the facilitated resolution of conflict.
The latest March issue of the Civil Litigation Update (CLU) examines a recent decision of the Appellate Division of the High Court concerning a case of overcharging clients, a worrying trend in recent years that brings into sharp relief the court’s supervisory role in holding lawyers accountable for such behaviour.
The Singapore High Court in DMZ v DNA [2025] SGHC 31 held that proceedings commenced by the claimant seeking review of an administrative decision made by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre were bound to fail. The decision is worthy of note as a rare instance of judicial authority considering the relationship between arbitral institutions and the parties to the arbitrations they administer, as well as the supervisory court's role in overseeing institutional arbitrations.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced last month that the Equities Market Review Group has recommended its first set of measures to enhance the development of Singapore’s equities market, collectively aimed at increasing investor interest and deepen liquidity. This update summaries some of these measures which would be particularly relevant to existing issuers already listed on the Singapore Exchange.
The law on limitation periods in Singapore is well understood but still prone to much dispute in its application. This is especially so when dealing with when the “knowledge” required for commencing an action arises in the context of a construction dispute. This article examines some of the principles laid out in the case of Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No 4099 v KTP Consultants Pte Ltd [2024] 1 SLR 1226 and seeks to set out several key take-aways from the seminal decision of the Appellate Division.
New AI governance initiatives were introduced to enhance the safety of AI for Singaporeans and global citizens at the recent AI Action Summit which was held in February. This update highlights the key features of these initiatives.
This update summarises the changes that were made to the Guidelines for Developoers on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism on 21 January 2025 in line with the key recommendations made in the report by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Anti-Money Laundering.
Group Lease Holdings Pte Ltd v Group Lease Public Co Ltd [2024] SGHC 302 concerned an interim injunction application brought by the company and its liquidator, in the context of a clawback action against the company’s parent. Two important and novel issues were raised: (a) whether an unregistered charge is void against a provisional liquidator; and (b) whether the exercise of a charge created in circumstances rendering it an unfair preference may be restrained under s 270 of the Companies Act 1967 (2020 Rev Ed). This article addresses these twin developments in the law of company liquidation and their potential implications.
This update covers recent court decisions and featured articles, events and developments relating to IP/IT dispute resolution in Singapore in March 2025.
This update sets out the three new initiatives that were announced by Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo during the AI Action Summit which was held in Paris from 10 to 11 February 2025.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore recently shared the first set of measures proposed by the Equities Market Review Group to enhance the competitiveness of Singapore’s equities market. This update provides an overview of these measures with the second set of measures expected to be completed by end 2025.
In a divorce, the parent with care and control of the child of the marriage will usually seek an order for maintenance of the child against the other parent in the ancillary matters hearing. However, what happens if the child is 21 years old or above? Should the child make an application for maintenance herself? Or can the parent to whom she is aligned make the application on her behalf?