Lawyers say the new rules box out foreign firms and force local talent to look beyond Singapore for better opportunities. A committee convened by the Singapore Ministry of Law (MinLaw) has issued a ...

Singapore law firms are urged to adopt technology to achieve higher efficiencies and offered help to do so, including a newly set up SmartLaw Guild that aims to showcase best practices and case ...

Corporate, disputes and projects practices have seen the most lateral movement, and international firms were especially active in 2024, as more firms moved into the city-state.

Singapore's legal system has always made provision for dealing with terrorism directed at Singapore – this is its historical heritage. The centre-piece is the Internal Security Act which confers the ...

SINGAPORE: A veteran lawyer will be removed as a Justice of the Peace after his conviction last month for drink-driving and ...

Lawyers in Singapore now have access to Microsoft's generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tool Copilot, but are reminded about the importance of human oversight even as they embrace the ...

Singapore's sweeping anti-fake news law, which critics warn could be used to suppress free speech in the already tightly controlled Asian city state, came into force Wednesday. Under the Protection ...

SINGAPORE — Pro bono or free legal assistance in Singapore may be found in one of the most unexpected places — a temple. Organizers and the chairman of the temple described their place to be Buddhist ...

The proposed amendments would extend the statute, enacted as a “temporary” measure in 1955, for the 14th time. It would also eliminate the already very limited judicial review of detention orders ...

An interior view of the Singapore Court of Appeal inside the Old Supreme Court Building – Photo: Jacklee In a ruling given on Monday, February 28, a Singapore law deeming sex between men to be a crime ...