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Mediation Theory Is Only As Good As Its Last Experiment, Nadja Alexander
Mediation Theory Is Only As Good As Its Last Experiment, Nadja Alexander
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In this post on the Kluwer Mediation Blog, the hypothetical question of scientific enquiry and progress in the mediation field is explored.
Restitution For The Mistaken Improver Of Land, Alvin W. L. See
Restitution For The Mistaken Improver Of Land, Alvin W. L. See
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The recent Malaysian case of Dream Property Sdn Bhd v Atlas Housing Sdn Bhd marks a rare occasion where an improver of another’s land is allowed to claim from the latter for the improvement. In a landmark judgment, the Federal Court of Malaysia recognised the right of recovery as based on the law of unjust enrichment, but curiously departed from certain well-established principles under common law which are less generous to the improver. The significance of this decision clearly lies in its contribution to the continuing endeavour to achieve an appropriate balance between the interests of the landowner and the …
Corporate Reorganisation Of China's Listed Companies: Winners And Losers, Zinian Zhang
Corporate Reorganisation Of China's Listed Companies: Winners And Losers, Zinian Zhang
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This article is the first empirical study investigating the corporate reorganisation of Chinese domestically-listed companies. Through examining these cases, it challenges the assertion made by most of these corporate reorganisation plans and by Chinese state-run media reports that creditors and general public shareholders were the major beneficiaries. Through an analysis of the data generated from all forth-three such cases, this articles reveals that: First, unsecured creditors could have, on average, received 61.37% more of their claims if the fundamental value distribution principle, the absolute priority norm, could have been complied with in these reorganisations; Second, if the general-public-shareholder-protection scheme issued …
A Turning Point For The Mediation Profession – Or A Slippery Slope?, Nadja Alexander
A Turning Point For The Mediation Profession – Or A Slippery Slope?, Nadja Alexander
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In this post on the Kluwer Mediation Blog, issues affecting practitioners in the mediation profession are explored.
A Closer Look At Ncmp, Elected President Reforms, Tan K. B. Eugene
A Closer Look At Ncmp, Elected President Reforms, Tan K. B. Eugene
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The proposed changes to the political system continue the Government’s narrative that political reforms ought to enhance Parliament’s representativeness and increase Singaporeans’ civic participation. They reinforce the Government’s abiding belief that the political system must produce a Government with a clear mandate, demonstrated through a strong parliamentary majority, for it to govern resolutely and decisively in the long-term interests of Singapore.
Much On The Agenda In New Term Of Parliament, Tan K. B. Eugene
Much On The Agenda In New Term Of Parliament, Tan K. B. Eugene
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In a commentary, SMU Associate Professor of Law Eugene Tan highlighted several key issues as President Tony Tan Keng Yam opens the 13th Parliament’s five-year term tomorrow, which include the challenges facing the fourth generation (4G) leaders, the role of the Worker’s Party, as well as the critical issues for Parliament to tackle. Associate Prof Tan said that the 4G leaders will have to develop individual and collective identities and be able to win the confidence and trust of Singaporeans as the leadership transition substantially progresses further in the next few years. He noted that the critical issues for Parliament …
Building Sustainable Futures In The Legal Classroom, Michelle Mei Ling Lim
Building Sustainable Futures In The Legal Classroom, Michelle Mei Ling Lim
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The stable functioning of Earth’s life support systems is a prerequisite for a thriving global society.1 There is however growing evidence that human impact is putting such functioning at risk. The likely impacts of global environmental change include diminishing food production, water scarcity, extreme weather, ocean acidification, deteriorating ecosystems and sea-level rise. These impacts will further undermine human well-being and long-term prosperity. 2 Present and future generations are therefore faced with unprecedented challenges and the quest to achieve sustainable futures is fraught with uncertainty
Corporate Reorganisation Of China’S Listed Companies: Winners And Losers, Zinian Zhang
Corporate Reorganisation Of China’S Listed Companies: Winners And Losers, Zinian Zhang
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This article is the first empirical study investigating the corporate reorganisation of Chinese domestically-listed companies. Through examining these cases, it challenges the assertion made by most of these corporate reorganisation plans and by Chinese state-run media reports that creditors and general public shareholders were the major beneficiaries. Through an analysis of the data generated from all forth-three such cases, this articles reveals that: First, unsecured creditors could have, on average, received 61.37% more of their claims if the fundamental value distribution principle, the absolute priority norm, could have been complied with in these reorganisations; Second, if the general-public-shareholder-protection scheme issued …
The Illegality Defence In Corporate Law Claims Against Directors And Officers, Wai Yee Wan
The Illegality Defence In Corporate Law Claims Against Directors And Officers, Wai Yee Wan
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If a company incurs substantial fines or other pecuniary losses as a result of its unlawful conduct, can the company obtain an indemnity from its director/officer for having caused the company to incur such fines and losses? In particular, can the director/officer utilise the defence of illegality, notwithstanding that he has breached his duties owed to the company? The illegality defence, which raises the twin issues of the relationship between the unlawful act to the corporate claim and the attribution of the unlawful act to the company, has been the subject of detailed analysis recently in England, Singapore and Hong …
Making Mediation Law, Nadja Alexander, Felix Steffek
Making Mediation Law, Nadja Alexander, Felix Steffek
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Mediation is a procedure in which an intermediary without decision-making powers (themediator) systematically facilitates communication between the parties of a conflict withthe aim of enabling the parties themselves to take responsibility for resolving their dispute.Mediation is a highly flexible and adaptable process—a factor that can create challengesfor regulators. In fact, some people suggest that mediation should not be regulated at all.Yet, mediation does not and cannot exist in a regulatory vacuum.
The State Courts Centre For Dispute Resolution: Serving The Society With Quality Dispute Resolution Services, Dorcas Quek Anderson
The State Courts Centre For Dispute Resolution: Serving The Society With Quality Dispute Resolution Services, Dorcas Quek Anderson
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Court Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) has its origins in a 1994 pilot project in the Subordinate Courts (as it was known then) to have selected District Judges assist in resolving civil disputes using ADR processes. Within two decades, Court ADR has been extended to the entire gamut of cases filed in court, including civil claims, minor criminal offences and family disputes. Court ADR services, which have been known as “Court Dispute Resolution”, have become integral to the delivery of justice in the State Courts. As the Honourable The Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon has observed, ADR has been promoted as the …
China’S New Law On Exploration And Exploitation Of Resources In The International Seabed Area Of 2016, Nengye Liu, Rakhyun Kim
China’S New Law On Exploration And Exploitation Of Resources In The International Seabed Area Of 2016, Nengye Liu, Rakhyun Kim
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Despite its rich metallic mineral resources on land,1 the People’s Republic of China (China) has been actively exploring for deep seabed minerals in the international seabed area (the Area).2 The legal framework is provided by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC).3 China and the Russian Federation are the only States currently sponsoring exploration of all three types of deep seabed mineral deposit in the Area (polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, seafloor massive sulphides in the South West Indian Ridge, the Central Indian Ridge, and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts in the …
Unpacking The Compensatory Principle: Causation, Mitigation, Certainty Of Loss And Remoteness: The Mtm Hong Kong, Yihan Goh, Man Yip
Unpacking The Compensatory Principle: Causation, Mitigation, Certainty Of Loss And Remoteness: The Mtm Hong Kong, Yihan Goh, Man Yip
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The High Court decision of Louis Dreyfus Commodities Suisse SA v MT Maritime Management BV (The MTM Hong Kong) affirms that the compensatory principle mandates the assessment of actual loss resulting from the breach of a charterparty. Owing to the unexpected delay in obtaining a substitute charter after the original charterers had repudiated the charterparty. The MTM Hong Kong raised a previously unconsidered issue: is the court allowed to take into account the vessel owners’ losses occurring after the date that the charter voyage would have been completed? Under the Smith v McGuire measure of compensation, an owner is conventionally …
Hot Property In New Zealand: Empirical Evidence Of Housing Bubbles In The Metropolitan Centres, Ryan Greenaway-Mcgrevy, Peter C. B. Phillips
Hot Property In New Zealand: Empirical Evidence Of Housing Bubbles In The Metropolitan Centres, Ryan Greenaway-Mcgrevy, Peter C. B. Phillips
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Using recently developed statistical methods for testing and dating exuberant behaviour in asset prices we document evidence of episodic bubbles in the New Zealand property market over the past two decades. The results show clear evidence of a broad-based New Zealand housing bubble that began in 2003 and collapsed over mid-2007 to early 2008 with the onset of the worldwide recession and the financial crisis. New methods of analysing market contagion are also developed and are used to examine spillovers from the Auckland property market to the other metropolitan centres. Evidence from the latest data reveals that the greater Auckland …
Enactment Of Apology Legislation In Hong Kong: Report And Second Round Consultation, Lisa Wong, Kit Wah Cecilia Wong Ng, Hing Cheung Thomas Au, Nadja Alexander, Lok Kwan David Dai, Hing Fung Leung, Wai Hung Francis Law, Queenie Lau, Ting Kwok Iu, Shing Ping James Chiu, Shahla Ali, Michael Beckett, Thomas Edward Kwong
Enactment Of Apology Legislation In Hong Kong: Report And Second Round Consultation, Lisa Wong, Kit Wah Cecilia Wong Ng, Hing Cheung Thomas Au, Nadja Alexander, Lok Kwan David Dai, Hing Fung Leung, Wai Hung Francis Law, Queenie Lau, Ting Kwok Iu, Shing Ping James Chiu, Shahla Ali, Michael Beckett, Thomas Edward Kwong
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Nadja Alexander was contributor to the Report of the Department of Justice of Hong Kong as Chair of the Working Group.In the report published by the Working Group on Mediation of the Department of Justice in 2010, it was recommended, among others, that the question of whether there should be an apology or legislative provisions dealing with the making of apologies for the purpose of enhancing settlement deserves further consideration. In 2012, for Secretary for Justice established the Steering Committee on Mediation ("Steering Committee") with a view to further promoting the development of mediation in Hong Kong. The regulatory Framework …
No U-Turn Needed On The Elected Presidency, Tan K. B. Eugene
No U-Turn Needed On The Elected Presidency, Tan K. B. Eugene
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SMU Associate Professor of Law Eugene Tan cited the commentary "Let's talk about policy failures and the elected presidency" by Professor Kishore Mahbubani, where the latter argued that Singapore’s policy of an elected presidency should be revisited, and perhaps "the time has come to do a U-turn", stop having direct elections and go back to the previous practice of having Parliament elect the president. While Associate Prof Tan noted that Prof Mahbubani's concern is legitimate, he emphasised that the way forward is not a U-turn, but rather, a collective effort to determine how we can reduce the likelihood of electing …
Going Beyond Exams In Educating A Nation, Tan K. B. Eugene
Going Beyond Exams In Educating A Nation, Tan K. B. Eugene
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Today’s the start of the new school year for thousands of students in Singapore: A new beginning, especially for those transitioning from primary to secondary schools. School is such a significant part of our lives, especially in today’s knowledge-based economy.
The Law Of Remedies – The Importance Of Comparative And Integrated Analysis, Andrew B.L. Phang
The Law Of Remedies – The Importance Of Comparative And Integrated Analysis, Andrew B.L. Phang
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Two simple – and related – theses are advanced in this essay. The first is that, in the search for principle (whether in the law of remedies in particular or in the law in general), comparative analysis is extremely important. Secondly, this essay seeks to explain as well as demonstrate the importance of integrating academic scholarship with practical analysis. While both these theses are deceptively simple, they are by no means easy to accomplish and (perhaps as, if not more) importantly, might even entail a change in one’s mindset.
The Discretionary Death Penalty For Drug Couriers In Singapore: Four Challenges, Siyuan Chen
The Discretionary Death Penalty For Drug Couriers In Singapore: Four Challenges, Siyuan Chen
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In 2012, Singapore amended its Misuse of Drugs to give courts hearing capital drug trafficking cases the discretion to replace the default death penalty with life imprisonment and caning, provided that the accused person can show that he was merely a drug courier and the prosecution certifies that he had substantively assisted the authorities in disrupting drug trafficking activities. The Singapore High Court and Court of Appeal have since made important pronouncements on the 2012 amendments, but several challenges remain: first, whether the privilege against self-incrimination has been further eroded; secondly, whether an accused person can invoke the statutory relief …
Considering The Best Interests Test In The Context Of Disabilities, Vincent Ooi, Jia Wei Loh
Considering The Best Interests Test In The Context Of Disabilities, Vincent Ooi, Jia Wei Loh
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The United Kingdom is bound by several international obligations to eliminate discrimination against persons with disabilities, chief among these being the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (‘CRPD’), which was ratified on 8 June 2009.Compliance with these obligations is secured at the domestic level through provisions such as those in the Equality Act 2010 (‘EA 2010’). However, parents with disabilities remain exceptionally vulnerable to losing the care and custody of their children under care orders and child arrangements orders.Thus, in 2006 the Social Care Institute for Excellence conducted a knowledge review which found that social workers …
The User Principle: Rashomon Effect Or Much Ado About Nothing?, Kelvin F. K. Low
The User Principle: Rashomon Effect Or Much Ado About Nothing?, Kelvin F. K. Low
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