You are invited!
The Singapore Law Review cordially invites you to the SLR Symposium 2007. Come witness our 6 finalists argue their brilliant papers before our judges Dr. Kevin Tan, Professor Michael Hor and lawyers from the sponsoring firm TS Oon & Bazul. You can play a part too in determining the finalists’ performance — the skill with which they respond to questions from the judges AND audience will contribute towards their final results.
And be our guests for the very sumptuous …

By now, you’re probably wondering: what is the Law Careers Fair all about?
Well, Law Careers Fair basically is, as its name suggests, a one-week siesta where law firms come to the Law Faculty to promote their respective firms. For one whole week, groups of lawyers will bandy together to out-wit, out-pitch and out-sell their law firms to you. Yes, you, the ordinary law school student.
There will be buffets, talks, seminars, freebies, discounts, lucky draws and attractive prizes – all just so that the law firms can get to tell law …

Ms. Dawn Kua, Director of Operations, Cat Welfare Society
Q. Tell me more about the Cat Welfare Society.
Cat Welfare Society’s (“CWS”) mission is to save lives through sterilisation. We focus on sterilisation and management of community cats (stray cats) because we believe that keeping the population in check benefits cats, people who like cats and people who don’t.
13,000 cats are killed in Singapore every year. At the same time, the population of cats is not decreasing either. CWS offers an alternative solution to culling cats in our “Trap-Neuter-Return-Manage Programme” (“TNRM”). The …

Interested in being an in-house counsel but unsure about what they do? Ms Angeline Joyce Lee, President of the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association (SCCA), gives us a first-hand insight into what in-house counsel do.
Q. What is an in-house counsel?
In-house counsel are employed by a single company. They provide legal advice and other services relating to the business of the company. Technically, the company is their client but of course in practice, in-house counsel provide their services to the board of directors, the management, and the business units or departments of …

I read with interest the article entitled “Re-scoping s. 377A: A Juxtaposition of Views” (Juris Illuminae, January 2007) in which Muhammad Aidil sought to argue for the continued criminalization of homosexual acts. His arguments left me unconvinced.
Aidil’s first argument was that legalising homosexual activities in Singapore, where a large part of the population subscribes to faiths that outlaw homosexual activities, would be “worrying”. This raises the pertinent issue of the extent to which we should allow religious values to influence legislation, especially in a multi-religious state like ours. If we …