The Singapore Academy of Law Conference: Developments in Singapore Law (?SAL Conference?) is a continuing series of five-yearly conferences reviewing the developments in Singapore law. The SAL Conference 2011, held in February 2011, marked the fourth in the series, and continued the tradition of bringing together Singapore?s most eminent practitioners and academics to present papers on a wide range of practice areas of law. This book comprises the papers that were delivered at the SAL Conference 2011, which critically examined and evaluated significant local case law and legislation over the five-year period from 2006 to 2010 and were revised for publication to provide a concise yet comprehensive review with detailed references.


Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Yeo Tiong Min, Hans Tjio, Tang Hang Wu (General Editors)

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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

Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Associate Professor Joel Lee and Professor Lawrence Boo (general editors)

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.