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Education
MSc Law and Finance (Dist) (University of Oxford); LLB (Hons) (NUS); Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore)
Curriculum Vitae
Allen graduated from the University of Oxford with a MSc in Law and Finance (Distinction) in 2022 and the National University of Singapore with an LLB (1st Class Honours) in 2018. He is a public servant on the Public Sector Leadership Programme and is currently posted to the Land Transport Authority where he serves as lead counsel of the Disputes Resolution division and the Electric Vehicles Regulation team. Allen was formerly an associate with Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow, with a focus on financing transactions and financial technology. He is a member of the SAL Law Reform Committee and serves on its Subcommittee on Digital Identities.
Journal Articles
Journal articles
- “No Oral Modification Clauses: The Story from Singapore” (2021) 137 Law Quarterly Review 568
- “SORA transition in Singapore: Challenges for Intra-Period Events in Loan Documentation” (2021) 7 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 463
- “Contract Formation and Mistake in Cyberspace (Again): The Story So Far and Where to Next?: Quoine Pte Ltd v B2C2 Ltd [2020]” (2021) 33 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 692
- “The Deputyship regime under the Mental Capacity Act in Singapore: An Introduction”, (2020) Singapore Academy of Law 167, (with Tan Kah Wai).
- “Singapore’s competition regime and its objectives: the case against formalism”, (2019) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 67, (with Kenneth Khoo).
Working Papers
- “Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Singapore”, in Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), (Domański and Lackoroński Eds.).
- “Chapter 5: General Powers of Court and Appointment of Deputies”, in Commentary on the Singapore Mental Capacity Act, (with Colin Tan, Chong Yue-En and Tan Kah Wai).
- “Chapter 6: Excluded Decisions and Declaratory Provisions”, in in Commentary on the Singapore Mental Capacity Act, (with Colin Tan, Chong Yue-En and Tan Kah Wai).
- “Issues Paper on Digital Identities and Legal Transactions” (Law Reform Committee, Singapore Academy of Law)
Opinions
- “When an irreversible merger flouts Singapore’s competition law at consumers’ expense”, Today Online (10 October 2018), (with Kenji Lee)
Reports
- “Report on Civil Remedies”, (December 2020), (Law Reform Committee, Singapore Academy of Law).
- “World Universities Comparative Law Project – Legal Rating of Singapore”, Allen & Overy Global Law Intelligence Unit, (with Lim Shi Lun and Kenneth Ong).
- Commercial Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Law, Economics and Public Policy
- Mental Capacity and Mental Health Law
Research Project
The acquisition of rights and undertaking of liabilities are increasingly performed through digital means, and digitalisation has improved individuals’ access to services and markets. Considering these benefits, governments have sought to develop the necessary digital infrastructure to support users to partake in digital transactions, in particular “Digital Identities”.
As with many aspects of law and technology, while Digital Identity utilisation is developing in leaps and bounds, the laws pertaining to the use and misuse of Digital Identity are unfortunately stuck playing “catch-up”. Regulatory attention is presently focused on personal data protection and little to no attention has been placed on the transactional issues arising from the unauthorised use of Digital Identity, namely who should bear the losses from such unauthorised use, and what are the parties’ responsibilities in the transaction chain to prevent unauthorised use and mitigate losses from such unauthorised use.
The Singapore Academy of Law’s Law Reform Subcommittee on Digital Identities is conducting a review into this area, with support from the Centre for Banking Finance Law at the National University of Singapore.