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Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

2015

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Juggling Centralized Constitutional Review And Eu Primacy In The Domestic Enforcement Of The Charter: A. V. B., Maartje De Visser Sep 2015

Juggling Centralized Constitutional Review And Eu Primacy In The Domestic Enforcement Of The Charter: A. V. B., Maartje De Visser

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Let the letters in the title of the judgment not fool anyone as to the anonymity of the parties involved: the facts that can be gleaned from this and the relevant Austrian judgments (the Kazakhstani plaintiff was alleged to have kidnapped other Kazakhs and lived at various junctures in Austria and Malta) should provide enough information for anyone with rudimentary skills in operating search engines to unearth the sensational beginning and unexpected ending of the protagonist. Such details, unfortunately, belong in a blockbuster movie rather than an academic case note.


Amendments To The Companies Act – Audit Exemption For Small Companies, Pey Woan Lee Aug 2015

Amendments To The Companies Act – Audit Exemption For Small Companies, Pey Woan Lee

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The first phase of legislative amendments introduced by the Companies (Amendment) Act 2014 took effect on 1 July 2015. Of these amendments, the most significant is arguably the introduction of the “small company”, which replaces the exempt private company for purposes of audit exemption. This article considers the features of this new regime and illustrates its application to existing as well as new companies.


Identifying An Interest In Land Sufficient To Support A Caveat: Salbiah Bte Adnan V Micro Credit Pte Ltd [2014] Sghc 249, Alvin W. L. See Jan 2015

Identifying An Interest In Land Sufficient To Support A Caveat: Salbiah Bte Adnan V Micro Credit Pte Ltd [2014] Sghc 249, Alvin W. L. See

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The difficult issue of what constitutes an interest in land sufficient to support a caveat (“caveatable interest”) recently presented itself before the High Court in the case of Salbiah Bte Adnan v Micro Credit Pte Ltd, which concerned a caveat lodged to protect an alleged security interest. The decision deserves the attention of property lawyers for it helpfully addressed various principles of property law relating, directly and indirectly, to the lodgment of caveats.