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This book captures personal accounts by 15 legal personalities of their lives in the law in the decades leading up to 1959, when Singapore gained full internal self-governance. It draws on interviews by Singapore?s Oral History Centre with these change-makers who provide specific insight into our legal community and environment during those decades. Legal Tenor is not about hard-core history, but rather an attempt to extract and share some of the flavour of Singapore?s early legal years as told in the words of some of its earliest lawyers. Through a series of overlapping stories and perspectives, their tale is told with ? for the most part ? minimal intrusion, thus allowing readers to glean for themselves the tenor of the times.


Curator: Eleanor Wong

Date of Publication: Jan 2014

This is a biography of Wee Chong Jin, Singapore’s first Asian Chief Justice who laid the foundation for a strong and independent judiciary. The book sketches out his character in detail through an analysis of his judgments and as gleaned from his interview conducted by the Oral History Centre. Learn of his thoughts, his values, his interests, his achievements and the controversies leading up to his appointment and during his tenure.

The First Chief: Wee Chong Jin – A Judicial Portrait is a written work of art which depicts the times, cases and people during Wee Chong Jin’s life and legal career. Read it for a full appreciation of his contributions to the Judiciary and judicial system of Singapore.

This second edition discusses the many new and significant decisions, since 2010, within Singapore and other leading common law jurisdictions. These include: Ho Kang Peng v Scintronix Corp Ltd [2014] 3 SLR 329; Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (Publ), Singapore Branch v Asia Pacific Breweries (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2011] 3 SLR 540; Cavenagh Investment Pte Ltd v Kaushik Rajiv [2013] 2 SLR 543; Chang Benety v Tang Kin Fei [2012] 1 SLR 274; Chu Said Thong v Vision Law LLC [2014] 4 SLR 375; Thanakharn Kasikorn Thai Chamkat (Mahachon) v Akai Holdings Ltd (2010) 13 HKCFAR 479; Kelly v Fraser [2013] 1 AC 450; Eclairs Group Ltd v JKX Oil & Gas plc [2015] BUS LR 1395; FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious [2014] 3 WLR 535 and Benedetti v Sawiris [2014] AC 938. Significant parts of the book have also been re-written to achieve greater coverage and clarity including sections discussing the distinction between agents and servants; capacity to enter into the agency relationship; express and implied actual authority; apparent authority in the context of companies; representations giving rise to apparent authority; duties of performance and gratuitous agents; and breach of the implied warranty of authority.

Author(s): Tan Cheng Han SC

Year of Publication: 2017

Page Extent: 440 pages 

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