Majulah Singapura – The legal profession remembers Singapore’s journey
These legal luminaries are no stranger to trials, in the legal sense; but they have also lived through the trials
10 OLY Moments To Remember
The Opening of Legal Year (OLY) is a ceremony steeped in tradition. And as this list shows, the speeches made there can have a big impact on the everyday practice of law.
BY FOO KIM LENG OLY 1979: First female President of the Law Society Ms Phyllis Tan delivered the first-ever address
Remembering The Pan-Electric Crisis, Nearly 40 Years On
Why this incident marked a turning point in the evolution of our stock market.
Traders at the Singapore Stock Exchange in 1987. Ministry of Information and the Arts Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore
Covid-19: How Singapore’s Legal Profession Responded
The SAL Legal Heritage Committee set out to find out how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted Singapore’s legal community through a
Legal Legacies: Opening of the Legal Year in the past
Road closures, ceremonial parades and judicial wigs—the Opening of Legal Year (OLY) ceremonies in independent Singapore were vastly different from
Legal Legacies: The Story of Singapore Law (Tour from 2008)
The grandeur of the old Supreme Court building remains an enduring icon of Singapore’s legal history. This National Day weekend,
The Toa Payoh Ritual Murders: A Case Of Insanity Or Was It Just A “Wayang”? (Part 2)
The first part of this article took you into the court room where the battle was fought between the defence and prosecution as to whether the murderers were of sound mind. The psychiatric defence failed but could there have been a different outcome?
BY FOO KIM LENG “It was a very hard-fought trial and right to the end, it’s not certain which way
The Toa Payoh Ritual Murders: A Case Of Insanity Or Was It Just A “Wayang”? (Part 1)
Much has been written about one of Singapore’s most sensational crimes which took place 40 years ago. Delving into unpublished oral history accounts collected under SAL’s legal Heritage Programme and the National Archives of Singapore, we revisit the trial which continues to intrigue long after the case was closed.
BY FOO KIM LENG In early 1981, two children were killed in the vicinity of Toa Payoh. Shortly after, police
The Slips Of Paper That Kept A Profession On Track
Analogue methods of legal research hold a certain nostalgia for Ms Umayal Balakrishnan, who has worked as a librarian at Drew & Napier since 1994.
Before the advent of online resources like LawNet, the only way to update changes on statutes and legislation was to
Remembering The Robinsons Fire
(Photo: 1972 Singapore – Robinson’s Department Store fire at Raffles Place the morning after, 22 Nov 1972.) For years, Robinsons was