Dear Law School and Friends,
This month, we feature four articles from diverse areas of the law. This month’s Quare column will feature Associate Professor David Tan, who discusses, amongst other things, life as a law student, why he chose to become a law professor and why he decided to go into fashion photography. We also have articles keeping track of the legal developments in Singapore, including the Amendment of the Companies Act, the recent by-elections as well as the NUS Law Curriculum Review introduced last December. We hope you find …

By Xing Yun
The Curriculum Review Committee of the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore recently released a discussion paper (“CRC paper”) on proposed changes to the law school curriculum. This article captures my personal opinions as a current law student regarding some of the proposals laid out within the CRC paper.
The legal education landscape in Singapore has undergone many changes in the decade since the last curriculum review undertaken by the NUS Faculty of Law in 2002. Admission numbers have doubled, a second law school was set …

By Desmond Ng
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections.
Before 2012, the Singapore Government’s by-election policies never caught on as a hot button topic among the electorate. This was understandably so, given the rarity with which by-elections actually occurred. The last time such policies were examined was in parliament in 2008 following the passing on of Dr Ong Chit Chung, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jurong Group Representation Constituency (GRC). Even then, the debates proceeded without much fanfare …

by Nicole Carmen Tan Yi
It has been a couple of months since the completion of the Review of the Companies Act (CA)[1], which entailed the largest number of changes to the Act since its enactment in 1967, with the Ministry of Finance accepting 192 and modifying 17 out of the 217 recommendations by the Steering Committee.[2] Perhaps the excitement caused by the wave of change has already died down, but certainly the anticipation of the draft amendment bill promised to come early this year beckons more thought, and perhaps even …

Dear Law School and Friends,
Happy 2013! This month, we are pleased to introduce a new initiative co-organised by the Singapore Law Review and Justified, entitled Quare. Each month, both SLR and Justified will interview a prominent legally trained figure in society and come together to publish a feature article. This month, we are pleased to have interviewed Ms. Eu-Yen Tay, Chairwoman of The Butter Factory. Eu-Yen shared with us her thoughts of working in the legal sector, experiences helming The Butter Factory and views of some legal issues concerning our …