Looking Back
When a long career comes to a close, one may wonder quietly as to what legacy one has left behind. A legacy is an endowment of the riches that one accumulates from learning and experience, and it is offered, without
Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession
"AI is changing how the world works. The fact that so many countries are already embracing it means that all countries will ultimately have to reckon with the impact it drives."[ref]Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato, Superagency: What Could Possibly Go
Admission of Advocates and Solicitors to the Bar
On 14 May 2025, Justice Choo Han Teck presided over the admission of new advocates and solicitors over three sessions. Justice Choo delivered a brief address at each session. For the first session, Justice Choo wrote the address himself, leaning
Rise of the Zoombies
The year is 2020. Decades before this, novice lawyers at the Bar wandered about the office, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, asking their seniors, “What can I do to help?” Now, there is no office to go to. The seniors are around
Rustling Through Tea Leaves
This article looks back to the changes to the way law was practised in the days before the technological boom. The way we work will always keep changing. The name for that is progress; but we have never experienced so vast
200 Years of Singapore and the United Kingdom
Tommy Koh, Scott Wightman, ed., 2019 Straits Times Press Historian Edward Hallett Carr wrote that “History would not be worth writing or reading if it had no meaning”[ref]TLS 26 December 1954[/ref]; but searching for meaning presents an interesting conundrum ever since
Notes from Legal Writing Seminar by Justice Choo Han Teck
This is the transcript of the delivery by Justice Choo Han Teck when he spoke at a seminar on legal writing organised for members earlier this month. Prologue I agreed to speak at this seminar because I think that this subject