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Law And Covid-19, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez, Yihan Goh, Mark Findlay
Law And Covid-19, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez, Yihan Goh, Mark Findlay
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This book is a collection of essays from scholars at Singapore Management University School of Law analysing the challenges and implications of COVID-19 from the perspective of different areas of law, including private law, corporate law, insolvency law, data protection, financial laws, public law, privacy law, commercial law, constitutional law, law and technology, and dispute resolution. It also analyses how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the judicial system, the study of law, and the future of the legal profession. Beyond considerations of the pandemic’s influence on law and legal service delivery the authors consider how law can help facilitate the …
Exclusion Of Duty And The Irreducible Core Content Of Trusteeship: A Re-Assessment, Rebecca Lee, Man Yip
Exclusion Of Duty And The Irreducible Core Content Of Trusteeship: A Re-Assessment, Rebecca Lee, Man Yip
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This article reviews Millett LJ’s classic characterisation of the irreducible core content of trusteeship. Using duty modification / exclusion clauses that are commonly found in modern trust-corporate structures to circumvent a trustee’s duty to actively engage in corporate management as an example, this article has two main objectives. First, this article re-examines the duty to act honestly and in good faith in the irreducible core; and secondly, it considers how our reanalysis can help conceptualise and construe the ‘residual supervisory obligation’ enunciated by the courts in the recent Zhang v DBS litigation.
Trustees’ Investment Duties And Cryptoassets, Hang Wu Tang
Trustees’ Investment Duties And Cryptoassets, Hang Wu Tang
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This article considers the legal and practical concerns for trustees regarding cryptocurrencies and other related instruments, which will be referred to as “cryptoassets”. It will briefly introduce the various types of cryptoassets and explore the risks involved when trustees decide to (or not to) invest in these instruments. This article provides a framework on how trustees should approach the issue of cryptoassets.