Description

Overview

Delivered across four 2-hour sessions over 2 weeks, this course will provide an overview of the key principles of competition law in Singapore. It will introduce students to the underlying legal and economic concepts that underpin the statutory prohibitions against anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance and mergers that substantially lessen competition. Each session will survey some of the landmark decisions of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS), examine the relevant legislative provisions applicable to the scrutinised conduct and explore the broader policy implications of these features of the Singapore competition law framework.

Learning Objectives

This course aims to convey to its audience the following learning outcomes:

1. an understanding of the goals, characteristics and institutional setting of Singapore’s competition law framework;
2. an analytical framework for identifying and evaluating potential infringements of competition law prohibitions;
3. an awareness of the practical significance of competition law compliance to undertakings engaged in commercial transactions that prevent, restrict or distort competition in Singapore.

Who Should Attend

• Legal practitioners
• Corporate counsel
• Legal officers in government service

Pre-requisites

A basic law degree. Familiarity with basic micro-economics would be advantageous but not essential.

Assessment

3 Online Quizzes consisting of multiple-choice questions

Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the course with at least 75% attendance and 50% pass for every quiz, participant will receive a Certificate of Completion issued by NUS Law Academy.

Trainer’s Bio

Dr Burton Ong obtained his undergraduate and graduate legal training at the National University of Singapore and Oxford University, where he was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and the Vinerian Scholarship, as well as at Harvard Law School. He teaches and researches in the areas of Contract Law, Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law and has a special interest in the legal issues surrounding access to the use of, and benefit-sharing arising from, biological resources. He is interested in interdisciplinary pedagogical approaches to the study of law and received a University award for teaching excellence in 2008.

Since 2012, he has volunteered as a pro bono legal advisor at a community legal clinic in his local neighbourhood. In 2015, he coached a team of his students in an international competition law moot competition – the inaugural Herbert Smith Freehills competition – where they emerged as champions.

Please click here for his full faculty profile.