The power of the Court of Appeal to overrule or depart from one of its previous decisions is well known to lawyers in Singapore. Asurvey of the jurisprudence shows that this power has, in the two decades since the Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) was handed down, been exercised both usefully and appropriately. It confirms what many have suspected for a while now: the Court of Appeal has truly come into its own as arguably the leading exponent of the common law in Asia, with its judges possessing practical and scholarly expertise in equal measure.