C C Tan Award Acceptance Speech
Mr Amolat Singh The Honourable Members of the Judiciary, Mr President and members of the Council,Ladies and GentlemenIt gives me great honour and pleasure to stand before you and I am deeply humbled by this award.I am humbled looking at the
Citation for C C Tan Award 2019
This citation was read by Vice-President Adrian Tan at the Law Society’s annual dinner on 15 November 2019.It is my privilege and honour to read the citation for the C C Tan Award of 2019.This award is named after the
Law Society Annual Dinner 2019
The Law Society Annual Dinner was held on 15 November 2019 at The Fullerton Hotel, and was attended by more than 400 members from the legal profession and judiciary. This year, the theme was “Safari”, alluding to the adventurous nature
Law by Design: What the Legal Profession Can Learn from Design Thinking
In 2013, a group of designers, lawyers and technologists at Stanford University came together with the aim of developing innovative solutions to advance access to justice. They founded the Legal Design Lab (the Lab), based out of Stanford Law School’s
Going to War on Proactiveness
It’s a familiar refrain. “Step up”. “Make more of a contribution”. “Show more initiative”. “Be more proactive”. Managers give these statements with heartfelt yearning for team members to stretch themselves, extend themselves and challenge themselves. There’s just one problem. Both
NZ/Australia Study Trip
1.0 Overview and Objectives About 25 Chairpersons and members of Law Society’s practice committees organised a trip to Wellington in early September 2019 to study the best practices in various practice areas. The LG2 staff, together with the CEO and Assistant
Should You Change Your Business Structure?
Should you change your existing business structure from sole-proprietorship or a partnership to a company? A tax professional’s angle. According to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Mr Ng Wai Choong, in the current annual report for the financial year ended 31
Managing Legal and Ethical Risks in Cross-Jurisdictional Transactions
Background – The “Panama Papers” Leak In 2016, an anonymous source released 11.5 million client files from what was then the fourth-largest offshore services firm in the world, Mossack Fonseca & Co (a Panamanian law firm), in an incident now known
Cross Country Run 2019
This year, the Annual Law Society Cross-Country Run took place yet again at Bedok Reservoir on 3 August 2019. This was the second year in succession that the run was taking place after a long hiatus.This year’s event saw some
The “New Age” of the Legal Profession
Why Quantitative Skills Matter for Lawyers “Innumerable are the lawyers who explain that they picked law over a technical field because they have a ‘math block’”The Honourable Judge Richard Posner[ref]Infra note 4.[/ref] On 18 June 1964 at about 11:30am, Mrs Juanita Brooks