As en bloc fever sweeps by again, unit owners should understand the processes and people involved in collective sales.

A study found that more than half of employees steal confidential company information when they leave their employment. Data taken include customer email addresses and contact lists. Some of these may include personal data.

Our Lee Ee Yang, Ronald JJ Wong, Wilbur Lua and Charis Wong successfully represented the second appellants, Gold Chic Poultry Supply Pte Ltd and Hua Kun Food Industry Pte Ltd in the appeal, which resulted in the reduction of the penalty payable by our clients by more than $1 million.

Covenant News (February 2021)

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Singapore government has launched several schemes to help provide relief to businesses in Singapore adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest scheme implemented by the Singapore government is the Re-Align Framework, launched on 15 January 2021. In this article, we seek to address some of the frequently asked questions about the Re-Align Framework.

Successful enforcement of maintenance arrears for ex-wife

Fines for breaches of the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“PDPA”) are going to get heftier: up to 10% of annual Singapore turnover or up to S$1 million (whichever higher). We set out 10 simple steps to secure your organisation’s information technology (IT) systems to reduce the risk of PDPA breaches.

Covenant News (October 2020)

If you are a director or owner of a company in substantial debt, financial distress or becoming insolvent, you may want to do your best to resuscitate the company. If you seek to restructure debts, rationalise assets and reorganise the firm early, you may be able to avoid the company’s downfall.

In this article, we address some questions you may have if you are a creditor of a Singapore company that has entered or is entering into liquidation or winding up due to insolvency or otherwise.

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) systems, automated decision-making, and autonomous vehicles are become increasingly ubiquitous. While these can benefit society, there can be significant risks of harms and unfair outcomes from their use.

If your business is experiencing a slow-down because of the Circuit Breaker and social distancing measures during this COVID-19 outbreak, now is the best time to repair legal foundations, review internal systems, and position your business for when things pick up again. Here are 6 key areas you should review.

If a person copies, stores or circulates confidential information without permission, but not use it to another person’s detriment, would the person be liable for breach of confidence? Prior to this landmark decision by Singapore’s apex court, the answer was “No”.

How should courts divide matrimonial assets in “highly unusual” marital breakdowns? The three-step structured approach to the division of matrimonial assets is a useful starting point for courts to determine the appropriate ratio to be ascribed to each party. However, should courts depart from this starting position where a party is found to have made negative contributions to the family in the course of the marriage? In this "highly unusual" case, the Court of Appeal held, inter alia, that the Wife’s contributions to the family should be ascribed a negative value. Notwithstanding this, the Court of Appeal reversed the High Court’s decision by affirming the three-step structured approach to grant division of the matrimonial assets 75:25 in favour of the Husband.

Appeal made by the deceased’s employer and its insurer against work injury compensation dismissed by court

If your business has been affected by COVID-19, consider if you may seek temporary relief under the new law or object to another party relying on such relief.

Covenant News (April 2020)

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

Amelia* is turning 18 years old this year and has just gotten out of an abusive relationship with her now ex-boyfriend. Around the time of the breakup, she found out that she was about eight weeks pregnant with her ex-boyfriend’s child. When she told him about the pregnancy, he told her in no uncertain terms that he wanted nothing to do with her or her child. Strangely, however, he is adamant that the child should not be given up for adoption. He told her to choose between aborting the pregnancy or raising the child on her own. Amelia has since been kicked out of her family home and is distraught and at a loss as to what to do.

The outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (now designated by the World Health Organization as COVID-19), continues to dominate the news and capture our attention. In the first few days after the first reports of cases in Singapore, long queues formed outside retailers such as Guardian and Watsons as ordinary citizens tried to purchase surgical and/or N95 masks.