In an unreported decision in HC/S 236/2022, the General Division of the Singapore High Court held the defendant directors not liable for breach of the duty not to compete with the plaintiff company by providing services to the plaintiff’s former customer.

Our Director Benjamin Yam discusses what employers and employees can expect in safety standards when workers are (and continue to be) transported in lorries, after an employer was found liable for injuries suffered by a worker alighting from a lorry.

Our Associate Stuart Peter looks back on some of the key lessons we can learn from the events of 2022 in Tech, Crypto and Digital Assets. 

Our Associate Director Wilbur Lua explores what fiduciary duties are and why they matter.

What laws in Singapore cover popular digital payment systems like GrabPay or ShopeePay? What about crypto exchanges or wallets?

Our Director Ronald JJ Wong examines the Fintech Laws and Regulations in Singapore in 2022.

Director Ronald JJ Wong examines the general legal issues and legal documents, contracts and agreements a business can expect to encounter through its life cycle, from start-up to acquisition, to listing and to liquidation.

Who owns rights to IP? How can they be used? Director Ronald JJ Wong and Associate Stuart Peter explore some of these questions and issues, along with possible case studies in a four-part series on the creations of the mind. This article, the first in the series, focuses on patents.

Digital assets are an often-overlooked class of assets that most people do not specifically provide for in their Wills. Given that the number of people who own some form of digital assets has risen considerably over the last few years, it would be wise to consider the question of how digital assets can be specifically provided for in a Will and practically managed for leaving behind as an inheritance.

A commentary on 3 Corporate Services Pte Ltd v Grabtaxi Holdings Pte Ltd [2020] SGHC 17

MAS has issued the Guidelines on Licensing for Payment Service Providers, Guideline No: PS-G01 (18 December 2019) and specimen forms for PSA.

In a recent High Court matter which the author was lead counsel on, an interesting and novel legal issue arose on whether the plaintiff was entitled to claim for an account of profits from the sale of convoyed goods. The High Court considered our legal submissions and accepted the legal principles on this issue.

In the recent case of Ang Ai Tee v Resource Credit [2017] SGHC 159, the High Court upheld the appeal of a plaintiff borrower who sought to set aside a statutory demand for the sum of $135,879.96, which was issued by the defendant licensed moneylender pursuant to a series of refinancing transactions introduced by the defendant. At the crux of this case was the refinancing scheme in which the defendant imposed a 10% administrative fee for every loan refinancing arrangement.