Our Partners have contributed two chapters on Insolvency Law and the Legal Profession to the Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases (“SAL Ann Review“). The SAL Ann Review is an annual publication that highlights key Singapore cases and regulators’ decisions in an array of areas of law in the preceding year. Its contributors comprise leading practitioners and academics who review and analyse these cases.
- Insolvency Law: Sim Kwan Kiat, Head of our Restructuring & Insolvency Practice, and Partners Raelene Pereira and Wilson Zhu, covered the Singapore Court’s judgments in 2022 on novel points of law relating to insolvency and debt restructuring. These include decisions on the recognition of foreign insolvency judgments and orders, and the approach towards “lock-up agreements” in schemes of arrangement.
- Legal Profession: Partner Khelvin Xu from the Commercial Litigation Practice highlighted decisions in 2022 relating to ethics and professional responsibility for lawyers. The matters covered included: (i) the conduct of Legal Service Officers in Parti Liyani’s case; (ii) workplace abuse within law firms; (iii) a supervising solicitor who took on practice trainees despite not being qualified to do so; (iv) the cheating incidents during the Singapore Bar examinations in 2020; and (v) consequences arising from the improper use of social media.
These chapters were first published in e-First on 27 May 2023 and 28 April 2023, respectively. e-First is SAL’s e-publishing prior-to-print module.
To read the full chapters, please click here and here.
