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Academic Profiles



 
Name

HO Hock Lai
 
 
Designation

Professor
 
Qualifications

PhD (Cambridge), BCL (Oxford), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
 
Appointment(s)

Email Address: lawhohl@nus.edu.sg
Office Tel: (65) 6516-1217 
Office Fax: (65) 6779-0979 
Office Address

FED-02-14
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Eu Tong Sen Building
469G Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259776
 
Research Interests

Evidence and proof
 

Subjects Taught

Evidence & Procedure
Introduction to Legal Theory
Jurisprudence
International and Comparative Law on Evidence and Proof
 

Brief Biodata

Ho Hock Lai obtained his first law degree from the National University of Singapore,his postgraduate degree, the BCL, from Oxford University, and his doctorate from Cambridge University. He was called to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1990. In November 2005, he was a visiting fellow in the Law Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, in September 2008, he was a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, and in March 2009, he was a Parsons Visitor at Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. He currently teaches evidence law and the administration of criminal justice. His publications include A Philosophy of Evidence Law - Justice in the Search for Truth (OUP, 2008).


Representative Publications

1. "A Philosophy of Evidence Law - Justice in the Search for Truth" (Oxford U P, 2008)

2. "Legal Professional Privilege and the Integrity of Legal Representation" (2006) 9 Legal Ethics 163

3. "Legal Advice Privilege and the Corporate Client" [2006] SJLS 231

4. "What Does a Verdict Do? A Speech Act Analysis of Giving a Verdict" International Commentary on Evidence: Vol. 4: No. 2, Article 1. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/ice/vol4/iss2/art1

5. "Similar Facts in Civil Cases" (2006) 26 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 131

6. "Justice in the Pursuit of Truth - A Moral Defence of the Similar Facts Rule" (2006) 35 Common Law World Review 51

Publication List 

 

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