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The adoption of the Personal Data Protection Act transformed the legal regime for data protection in Singapore.The second edition includes (1) New chapters examining how the legislation has kept pace with technological change, (2) How individual rights have been balanced against business interests in the course of enforcing the law and (3) It also has specialist chapters on image rights and data protection, as well as new chapters on accountability and cross-border transfers and enforcement.

Editor: Simon Chesterman


Date of Publication: July 2018

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Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Academy Publishing


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This second edition discusses the many new and significant decisions, since 2010, within Singapore and other leading common law jurisdictions. These include: Ho Kang Peng v Scintronix Corp Ltd [2014] 3 SLR 329; Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (Publ), Singapore Branch v Asia Pacific Breweries (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2011] 3 SLR 540; Cavenagh Investment Pte Ltd v Kaushik Rajiv [2013] 2 SLR 543; Chang Benety v Tang Kin Fei [2012] 1 SLR 274; Chu Said Thong v Vision Law LLC [2014] 4 SLR 375; Thanakharn Kasikorn Thai Chamkat (Mahachon) v Akai Holdings Ltd (2010) 13 HKCFAR 479; Kelly v Fraser [2013] 1 AC 450; Eclairs Group Ltd v JKX Oil & Gas plc [2015] BUS LR 1395; FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious [2014] 3 WLR 535 and Benedetti v Sawiris [2014] AC 938. Significant parts of the book have also been re-written to achieve greater coverage and clarity including sections discussing the distinction between agents and servants; capacity to enter into the agency relationship; express and implied actual authority; apparent authority in the context of companies; representations giving rise to apparent authority; duties of performance and gratuitous agents; and breach of the implied warranty of authority.

Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Tan Cheng Han SC

Date of Publication: May 2017

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Data Protection in the Practical Context – Strategies and Techniques provides a detailed study of the law, practice and policy of personal data protection law in Singapore. As the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) that was adopted in April 2016 included provisions implementing a formidable extended jurisdictional reach, this book also provides practical coverage of the GDPR and gives clarity to the key provisions. Including an extensive exposition on Big Data and the Internet of Things and their inter-relationship with cybersecurity, this book is an essential tool for anyone who has to deal with personal data protection matters, ranging from the practitioner, to the in-house counsel and all businesses.

Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Hannah YeeFen Lim


Date of Publication: May 2017

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Trade is a keystone of the Singapore economy, and sales of goods comprise a substantial portion of that trade. Agreements for the sale and purchase of goods are subject to one of two statutes in Singapore. Domestic sales and all consumer sales are governed by the Sale of Goods Act (“SOGA”). International sales between commercial parties, with some exceptions, are subject to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (“CISG”) so long as both the buyer and seller are from contracting member states of the CISG. Singapore acceded to the CISG in 1996 and the CISG has been domesticated as a statute of Singapore. This short volume is intended to be a handy guide to sales law and to the ways in which the treatment of contracts of sale differ from the common law, whether under SOGA or the CISG. There are some important differences between SOGA and the CISG, and one of the purposes of this book is to provide guidance to lawyers and their clients on whether to “opt out” of the coverage of the CISG (which is easy to do if done properly) in favour of the application of SOGA or the domestic sales law of another country. Particular attention is paid to areas where there are striking differences between the CISG and SOGA or the common law, such as the introduction of parol evidence, the use of foreign precedents and the role of good faith.

Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Howard Hunter


Date of Publication: May 2017

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“This special issue reflects the great wealth of diverse and rigorous remedies scholarship that characterises its current phase of development. A particular aim of … this special issue, was to celebrate the depth and breadth of expertise on the law of remedies currently found in the Asia-Pacific region. To that end, the issue brings together distinguished scholars working in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, all with international standing and connections to the world’s great law schools. Their work displays a correspondingly firm command of the law of remedies across multiple jurisdictions. Each of their contributions to this issue provides a unique and original perspective on its chosen topic. As a collective body of work, the essays provide a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the ongoing evolution of this important field as a matter of theory and, relatedly, in practice.” — Professor Elise Bant, Guest Editor


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This issue discusses the following topics: (a) the defeat of the loss model in tort and a proposal for a more morally attractive picture of torts law beyond the loss model; (b) the widened scope of recoverable damage in negligence actions involving the invasion of personal interest; (c) the continued relevance of Bolam to the duty to inform in Singapore; (d) the impact of the various modes of Internet communications, such as Internet websites, hyperlinking, blogs, e-mails, Twitter and Facebook, on defamatory meaning; (e) how far existing torts protect the notion of privacy and the need for a separate tort of intrusion in New Zealand; (f) the new tort of misuse of private information in the UK; (g) protecting digital information under the European Union’s data protection regime; (h) a new paradigm of “internalising externalities” that could assist courts in deciding the appropriate legal responsibility to be assigned to entities; and (i) the differences in tort and equity on participatory liability and a case for their assimilation


Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Christian Witting and Goh Yihan


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The SAL Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2016 encapsulates and evaluates decisions of the Singapore courts in the year 2016. As with the previous issues, cases from other jurisdictions impacting local law are also discussed.


Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Teo Keang Sood and Goh Yihan (general editors)


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Based on data collated concerning defamation cases decided by the Singapore courts from 1965 to 2015, this monograph assesses the trends in the courts’ use of foreign decisions and the diverse origins and nature of the foreign sources. In addition to the research methodology, it discusses the comparative law literature relating to such use of foreign precedents by judges and their contributions to the transnational judicial dialogue. Lawyers and judges may also be interested in the comparative analysis of the defamation laws of the selected foreign jurisdictions (England, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Malaysia and Hong Kong) as well as the specific legal issues (namely, defamatory meaning, reference to plaintiff and publication, the legal defences to defamation, the remedies and conflict of laws). This book not only reflects upon the past 50 years of legal evolution, but also looks ahead to the potential challenges and prospects for the development of the tort of defamation in Singapore.

Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Gary Chan Kok Yew


Date of Publication: Dec 2016

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