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Admiralty Law by Mr Toh Kian Sing


Mr Toh Kian Sing is currently working on this research project with CCLS. The research findings will be published as the 2nd edition of his book on Admiralty Law. Since its publication in 1998, the Book has received widespread readership and is used by many shipping practitioners, especially in Singapore and Malaysia, as a reference text on issues of admiralty law. It has also been cited in judgments of the Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Canadian courts. The second edition of the Book is due to be completed in 2004 - 2005. It is expected that the second edition of the Book will cover developments on admiralty law since the middle of 1997. As with the first edition of the Book, decisions from Singapore, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and Canada would be discussed in the second edition.



Roundtable Discussion


The Centre brings together representatives of the industry, regulators, legal practitioners and academics, both legal and non-legal, to debate, discuss and also identify significant legal issues.

The first roundtable discussion, convened on 31 October 1998, dealt with Repudiation of Leases, with Assoc Prof Tan Sook Yee, Assoc Prof Lye Lin Heng, Assoc Prof Tan Yock Lin, Assoc Prof Teo Keang Sood and Mr Aedit Abdullah as convenors.

The second roundtable discussion, convened on 10 April 1999, focused on A Code of Best Practices for Corporate Governance. Spirited and extremely comprehensive discussions were led by distinguished discussants from the corporate and securities sector and the legal profession, namely Mdm Kuok Oon Kwong, Mr Chelva Rajah SC, Mr Kaka Singh, Ms Ginney Lim , Mr Nagaraj Sivaram, and Dr Loizos Heracleous.



Links with Duke Global Capital Markets Center (DGCMC)


The Centre invited Prof Steven Schwarcz, director of the DGCMC, as a distinguished visitor and it is hoped that the link can be inaugurated with the launch of a joint research project on international and comparative capital and financial markets regulation.



Commissioning by the Ministry of Finance and the Attorney-General’s Chambers


In December 1998, the Centre was commissioned by the Attorney-General’s Chambers to undertake research into Aircraft Mortgage Registration. This research report was a joint effort by Assoc Prof Tan Yock Lin, Ms Dora Neo and Mr Hans Tjio, and was submitted to the Attorney-General’s Chambers in 1999.

The Centre was also commissioned by the Ministry of Finance to undertake research into a few areas of law, in response to the Corporate Finance Committee’s Report on liberalising Singapore’s financial sector.

Research was carried out in the areas of Disclosure Requirements for Unit Trusts (Assoc Prof Tan Sook Yee, Mr Aedit Abdullah, Mr Tey Tsun Hang), Fiduciary Obligations of Unit Trust Managers (Assoc Prof Tan Sook Yee, Mr Aedit Abdullah, Mr Tey Tsun Hang), Civil Actions in respect of Insider Trading (Assoc Prof Tan Yock Lin, Mr Tey Tsun Hang, Ms Margaret Chew) and Rationalisation of Company and Securities Law (Assoc Prof Tan Cheng Han, Ms Margaret Chew, Mr Michael Ewing-Chow).

Reports on Rationalisation of Company and Securities Law, Civil Remedies for Insider Trading and Fiduciary Obligations of Unit Trust Managers were submitted in February, April and May 1999 respectively.

 

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