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In Two Courts: Advice On Getting A Foreign Judgment Recognised
An interview with Albert Dinelli, who acted in the first known case where a Chinese commercial judgment was successfully recognised and enforced by the Australian courts. ABLI's "Asian Principles for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments'' ebook is now available.

The modern economy depends on the free movement of people, goods and services. These cross-border commercial dealings also result in

A Class Act: How Singapore’s First Law Faculty Came To Be
Students across the country have begun the academic year in earnest. SAL marks the occasion with a look at the history of Singapore’s law faculty which took root at the then-University of Malaya. It started in 1959 with barely three academic staff: Dean Professor LA Sheridan, Mr B L Chua and Mr Tan Boon Teik, a magistrate who taught part-time. Mr Tan Boon Teik, who would later become Singapore’s longest serving Attorney-General, continued to teach part-time at the faculty for many years. His wife, Professor Tan Sook Yee, would became the faculty’s 10th Dean in 1980. This two-part series is based on SAL's oral history interviews with former deans Prof Sheridan and Prof Tan Sook Yee. They recount the nascent years of the law faculty and their love of teaching which have nurtured many legal illuminaries who have made their mark in Singapore and overseas.

It wasn’t always a given that a law degree from a Singapore university would be recognised as a qualification for