The Annotated Singapore Companies Act provides invaluable section-by-section annotations to the Singapore Companies Act, Cap 50 throwing light on the application and interpretation of the provisions of the Act.

The high-quality annotations are insightful, practical and authoritative, enabling a confident understanding of the workings of the Act. The key terms and phrases in each section are explained by reference to local and foreign case law as well as academic writing.

This publication facilitates quick and easy research with the inclusion of cross-references from the provision being annotated to related provisions which work together with it.

The impact of the wide-ranging amendments brought in by the Companies (Amendment) Act 2014 as well as the Companies (Amendment) Act 2017, and the consolidation of the relevant sections on corporate rescue and insolvency with the Bankruptcy Act, Cap 20 into the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act, 2018 is covered to make this publication fully up-to-date.

Significant amendments to the Act, covered in this title:

1. Establishes a new regime to enable a foreign corporate entity to transfer its registration to Singapore

2. Simplifies the timelines for holding of an AGM and filing of returns and reduces regulatory burdens for companies

3. Introduces a new corporate vehicle through the Variable Capital Companies Act 2018 which serves as a structure for both open and closed-ended investment funds in Singapore.

4. Updated the previous edition with recent local and foreign cases from 2017 to June 2023.

Key features

1. Provides insightful annotations to the Companies Act

2. Includes amendments made by the Companies (Amendment) Act 2014 and the Companies (Amendment) Act 2017 and the impact of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act, 2018

3. Prepared by an author with both broad academic and practical experience

4. Contains rich citation of local and foreign case law

5. Comprised of general overview, explanation of key terms/phrases, definitions, and cross-reference to related provisions

The book is aimed at practitioners, legal academics, and judges in the hope that it will be useful in shaping the jurisprudence surrounding damages, its quantification, and the use of expert evidence in India. 

Editor-in-Chief: Cavinder Bull

With a team of expert contributors

Helmed by General Editor, Cavinder Bull S.C., this publication is annotated by some of the pre-eminent practitioners in the field.

It is the leading title of its kind, presenting the most comprehensive coverage of Singapore Civil Procedure in both print and electronic format. This title provides the new Rules of Court in an annotated format and supplies supporting legislation and other material of significance.

In the construction industry, arbitration is the major means of dispute resolution, particularly for large, complex projects. This new book addresses the process from the perspectives of both the parties involved and that of their advisers. It discusses ways to improve results of the process and the management of costs and time and a purposive approach to manage a construction arbitration.

Be well-informed of the intricacies in navigating retrenchment in Malaysia

Ascertain English and Malay legal terminologies with confidence

Providing an invaluable key for quick and accurate access to personal injury quantum awards

Reports important cases central to revenue law in Malaysia

The Second Edition of the Financial Institutions (Resolution) Ordinance (Cap 628): Commentary and Annotations provides updates to the Ordinance as well as subsidiary enacted Regulations and Rules. It fully examines and analyzes the law.  

 Clough & Clough on Personal Injuries provides an easy reference point for key areas of personal injuries (“PI”) litigation.

 The essential reference manual on criminal law, procedure, sentencing and practice in Hong Kong

Tort Law in Hong Kong, now in its fifth edition, is both a learning tool for intending lawyers and the most up-to-date and comprehensive tort law resource for legal practitioners, academics and judges. The focus is on the Hong Kong law and context. The new edition provides critical analysis of more than 300 court decisions from Hong Kong and relevant overseas jurisdictions.

Hanbury Martin: Modern Equity provides an up-to-date and modern account of this challenging area of the law. This twenty-second edition of the long-standing work is the third edition under the present editors. The new edition contains rigorous analysis of the latest in case law and academic debate, with strengthened reference to other common law jurisdictions. Modern Equity continues to be unparalleled in breadth of scope and wealth of detail and remains the authority on equity and trusts law.

Navigate the landscape of coronial law with Jervis on Coroners. This quintessential guide is the leading resource for anyone involved in a coroners inquest or investigation, taking you step-by-step through the practice and procedure. From the fundamental principles to the complexity of homicide cases, disasters, prescribed diseases and notifiable accidents, this work provides detail and insight across the full spectrum of issues that you might encounter.

Jervis on Coroners is more than just a reference its the key to understanding the nuances of this legal system and the specific powers and duties of the coroner. With a logical structure and all-angles approach it is essential reading for coroners, solicitors and barristers, local government officials and medical examiners. Secure your copy now to ensure that you are equipped with the expertise to handle even the most intricate of cases with confidence and authority.

• The authority on coronial law and its practice in coroner inquests and investigations.
• Consolidates all relevant procedures, rules, materials and legislation to deliver complete guidance on this legal system.
• Explains the classification, appointment and function of coroners and medical examiners and their territorial jurisdiction.
• Covers all matters relevant to beginning an investigation, outlining the basis for a coronial investigation and the required reports and certificates.
• Addresses the scope of an investigation and the four statutory questions: who died, how, when and where?
• Looks at issues of information and publicity such as disclosure, data protection, freedom of information, privilege and coroners powers to obtain such information.
• Guidance on procedures before an inquest, during the preliminaries and at the inquest itself.
• Commentary on special cases of homicide, notifiable accidents and prescribed diseases, treasure and major disasters.
• Outlines post-inquest matters including administration, fees, appeals and statutory and judicial review.
• Additional analysis of the international dimension of coroners and human rights.
• Accompanied with legislation, forms and precedents.

This title provides you with all the guidance you need on the law governing the voluntary assignment of things in action. It covers the nature of assignment, equitable assignments, restrictions, priorities, liabilities, conflict of law and more. The commentary is clear and concise and follows the approach of titles such as Chitty on Contracts enabling you to find a statement of law and, for each issue or topic, the authority that supports it.

• Defines assignment before outlining and giving examples of choses in action, detailing the requirements for assignment and looking at the relationship of assignment and other transactions.
• Examines the law of assignment under section 136 of the Law of Property Act 1925.
• Goes through equitable assignment and agreements to assign, covering both an equitable assignment of an equitable chose and of a legal chose.
• Deals with restrictions on assignment and covers contractual terms forbidding assignment, prohibition by statute or public policy and personal contracts and covenants.
• Discusses the position of creditors, trustees in bankruptcy and personal representatives of the assignor and the liquidator of an assignor company.
• Analyses the problems associated with priorities including those between competing assignees, competing holders of interests in shares and an assignee and a chargee under a charge created by a company.
• Considers special priority rules and variation of priorities.
• Establishes defences available to the obligor under assignments subject to equities, including defences that impeach the existence or enforceability of the chose in action assigned, set-off, and right of retainer.
• Reviews available financing devices, factoring, block discounts and securitisation.
• Looks at situations where there is assignment of obligations or liabilities.

The fifth edition has been comprehensively updated throughout to ensure you have the latest guidance at your fingertips. Key changes include new discussions on whether a contract reflects a single chose in action or a bundle of choses and an examination of the distinctions between an intention to assign and contractual intention. It also addresses whether the debtor or obligor has a right to sight the assignment.

Other new features of this edition include:

• Additional new commentary on the redaction of documents relied on in court; the effects of backdating an assignment; the doctrine of relation on the assignees interest before the chose is assigned; whether termination of a contract affects a non-assignment clause; and priority between beneficiary under a trust and assignee of the trustee.
• Expanded commentary on relief by way of interpleader; agreements to assign an existing chose in the future; form of writing for equitable assignments of equitable choses; prohibitions on assignment; marshalling; abatement; and equitable set-off.
• Updated with new UK case law including: Promontoria (Oak) Ltd v Emanuel [2021] EWCA Civ 1682, [2022] 1 WLR 2004; Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648, [2023] K.B. 345; Farrar (Deceased) v Miller [2021] EWHC 1950 (Ch); Farrar v Miller [2022] EWCA Civ 295; Re Smith [2021] EWHC 1272 (Comm); LA Micro Group (UK) Ltd v LA Micro Group Inc [2023] EWCA Civ 214, [2024] Ch. 1; Phoenix Group Foundation v Harbour Fund II LP [2023] EWCA Civ 36; Dassault Aviation SA v Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 5; and Energy Works (Hull) Ltd v MW High Tech Projects UK Ltd [2022] EWHC 3275 (TCC), 206 Con. L.R. 40
• Relevant cases from other jurisdictions including: Re O''Hara-Tucker [2022] VSC 572 (Australia); Billabong Gold Pty Ltd v Vango Mining Ltd (No. 2) [2023] WASCA 58 (Australia); Winland Finance Ltd v Gain Hero Finance Ltd [2022] HKCFA 3 (Hong Kong); and Gravitas International Associates Pte Ltd v Invictus Group Pte Ltd [2022] SGHC 2 (Singapore).

Now in its 15th edition (first published 40 years ago), Documentary Evidence prides itself on being up to date. In the fast-moving world of civil procedure, and the vast amount of caselaw on disclosure and privilege, it is rewritten on a three-year cycle.

The book is a comprehensive guide to the legal obligations of disclosure. Logically presented and lucidly written, it provides detailed analysis and sensible practical advice. Following a chronological structure, it shows when and how a practitioner should take action in relation to the obligation to disclose. It is a standard work that is often cited in court judgments.

Under the Civil Procedure Rules the parties to an action are encouraged to adopt a cards-on-the-table approach toward the exchange of information, not just once litigation has commenced but before as well. It is likely in the early stages that a few documents will be identified as being relevant or key to the matter at hand. These will be used to provide advice as to the merit or not of proceeding with the dispute. If the decision is taken to proceed, the law imposes a requirement to make full and proper disclosure, which is the process whereby the parties to an action disclose to each other all documents in their possession, custody or power relating to matters in question in the action. This title deals with the nature and scope of the obligation to disclose.

Documentary Evidence:

• Provides a comprehensive guide to the principles, obligations and protections of disclosure, legal professional privilege and other aspects of evidence in the form of documents
• Authored by a renowned KC, provides detailed analysis, practical advice and robust views often derived from cases in which he has been personally involved
• Is regularly cited in court, most recently in Al Sadeq v Dechert LLP [2024] EWCA Civ 28, JSC Commercial Bank Privatbank v Kolomoisky [2022] EWHC 868 (Ch), and Recovery Partners GP Ltd v Rukhadze [2021] EWHC 1621 (Comm)
• Discusses in depth the key principles and problem areas of disclosure, and how to raise, or combat, the available defences against it
• Is logically structured by following in chronological order the steps taken in conducting a case, showing the practitioner when and how to take action at each stage
• Advises on how to obtain, assess and manage the documents needed and how to identify the key issues
• Discusses how practices have changed consequent to the fact that most disclosure is now electronic disclosure and the challenges and opportunities presented by this
• Analyses the extent of the powers of regulatory or public bodies to obtain or disclose documents
• Discusses how the Civil Procedure Rules have affected the position on disclosure in important respects from pre-action protocols and powers, to objections to disclosure and inspection, to the practicalities and problem areas of CPR disclosure, to the failure and abuse of disclosure obligations
• Sets out the rights of access to documents, including those held by companies, trusts, partners, receivers and agents, as well as access to court documents, and the means by which data can be accessed
• Explains fully the multi-faceted nature of legal professional privilege what rights different types of privilege provide, their breadth and limits, when and how to claim or waive them
• Explains the courts power to exclude documentary evidence
• Describes the issues and obligations of confidentiality, including the development of the collateral undertaking, or proscriptions against the misuse of information obtained through disclosure, both prior to and under the CPR
• Discusses how to deal with international elements of a case, such as witnesses out of the jurisdiction, evidence in the jurisdiction for foreign proceedings, discovery proceedings abroad, documentary orders against foreign entities, the powers of and principles applied to by the English court, the application of foreign law, etc.
• Includes individual chapters on Witness statements and other written evidence; Expert reports; The Civil Evidence Act 1995; and Powers of Investigation

Whats new for the 15th edition:

• New jurisdictional gateway available for Norwich Pharmacal applications from 1 October 2022 and new Norwich Pharmacal caselaw on multi-jurisdictional applications: Green v CT Group Holdings Ltd 2023 EWHC 3168 (Com)
• Applications out of the jurisdiction for non-party disclosure: Gorbachev v Guriev 2023 2WLR 1
• Iniquity exception and implied waiver: Candey v Bosheh 2022 4WLR 84.
• Standard of proof for iniquity exception and litigation privilege for non-parties: Al Sadeq v Dechert 2024 EWCA Civ 28
• Scope of litigation privilege: Loreley Financing v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) 2022 EWCA Civ 1484
• Disclosure regimes: separate chapters on PD57AD (successor to the disclosure pilot), CPR 31, and new chapter on other forms of disclosure
• Latest authority on practical control for disclosure purposes
• Disclosure and devices of ex-employees: Various Airfinance Leasing Comaines v Saudi Arabian Airlines Corp 2022 1 WLR 1027, Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International 2022 EWHC 3054 (Comm)
• New authorities on shareholder privilege: Various Claimants v G4S plc 2023 EWHC 2863 (Ch)
• Document destruction: EDF Man V Come Harvest 2022 EWHC 229 (Comm), Giddens v Frost 2022 EWHC 1022 (Comm)
• Latest authority on PD57AC (witness statements): MAD Atelier International BV v Manes 2021 EWHC 1899 (Comm), Mansion Place Ltd v Fox Industrial Services Ltd 2021 EWHC 2747 (TCC)
• Creation of Hollander Orders concerning redactions following JSC Commercial Bank Privatbank v Kolomoisky [2022] EWHC 868 (Ch) and Recovery Partners GP Ltd v Rukhadze [2021] EWHC 1621 (Comm)