Year 2017


Date News
December 2017 Poh Chu Chai publishes new book, Guarantees and Performance Bonds, Dec 2017

CBFL congratulates our Senior Research Fellow, Poh Chu Chai on the publication of his book, Guarantees and Performance Bonds (3rd edn) by LexisNexis. Further details about the book are available here.
December 2017 Hans Tjio publishes new book, Principles and Practice of Securities Regulations in Singapore, Dec 2017

CBFL congratulates Professor Hans Tjio on the publication of his book, Principles and Practice of Securities Regulations in Singapore (3rd edn) by LexisNexis. Co-authored with Wan Wai Yee and Yee Kwok Hon, further details about the book are available here.
5-8 September 2017 Sandra Booysen presents 'Banks and the Tort of Conversion' at the 108th Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, 5-8 September 2017

CBFL Deputy-Director, Sandra Booysen, presented a paper on Banks and the Tort of Conversion at the 108th Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars held at University College Dublin, from 5-8 September 2017.
3-10 September 2017 Hans Tjio and Dora Neo to speak at the 35th International Symposium on Economic Crime taking place at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 3-10 September 2017

Professors Hans Tjio and Dora Neo will speak at the 35th International Symposium on Economic Crime taking place at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, from 3-10 September 2017. Hans will speak on the proper responsibilities of those who manage and control institutions in identifying and reacting to threats. Dora will speak on the extent to which the financial community can expect regulators to protect them from economic crime, and also participate in a panel discussion on 'Big Data: Bad Bata, Breaches and Cybercrime', in the context of the financial industry.
August 2017 CBFL congratulates Dr David Fox on his appointment as Chair of Common Law at the University of Edinburgh from August 2017!

David Fox is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Fellow of St John's College, in the University of Cambridge. He is a contributing editor of Snell's Equity, and Ruoff and Roper, Registered Conveyancing.

David's early interests in property, trusts and tracing led to a more general interest in the legal treatment of money. He is the author of Property Rights in Money (Oxford University Press, 2008), and in recent years has worked on a collaborative project with economists, banking lawyers and legal historians which will lead to the first history of western monetary law. The resulting book, David Fox and Wolfgang Ernst (eds), Money in the Western Legal Tradition, will be published by Oxford University Press later in 2015.

He was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Banking & Finance Law from 1 to 8 April 2015.
5 July 2017 Hans Tjio appointed deputy chairman of SGX's Listings Advisory Committee, 5 July 2017

CBFL Director Hans Tjio has been appointed as the deputy chairman of the Listings Advisory Committee (LAC) of Singapore Exchange (SGX). More information is available at The Business Times Online.
25-26 April 2017 Sheng Jin presents 'The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as an Alternative MDB: A Competitor or a Compensator for the Established Global Financial Architecture?' at the 3rd International Business and Trade Law (INTLaw) Conference, 25-26 April 2017

CBFL Adjunct Researcher Sheng Jin will be presenting her paper titled 'The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as an Alternative MDB: A Competitor or a Compensator for the Established Global Financial Architecture?' at the 3rd Annual International Business and Trade Law (INTLaw) Conference. Organised by the Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law, the conference is hosted by the University of Manitoba (Canada) at the Inn at the Forks, Manitoba, Canada, 25-26 April 2017.
17 March 2017 Hans Tjio visits Zhejiang University's Guanghua Law School on 17 March 2017

On 17 March 2017, CBFL Co-Director Hans Tjio visited Guanghua Law School in Zhejiang University (People's Republic of China). He was welcomed by Professor Zhao Jun, Vice Dean of Guanghua Law School and Professor Li Youxing, Professor of Corporate Law. During the visit, Hans delivered a presentation on "An empirical look at the consequence of oppression in Singapore", an article that he recently published in the Journal of Corporate Law Studies (online). During the seminar, he examined how the use of 'commercial unfairness' rather than a contractarian approach may have led to more complex and costly litigation that has damaged SMEs in Singapore.
12 January 2017 Umakanth Varottil speaks at the Joint Conference on Schemes of Arrangement at the University of Oxford, 12 January 2017

On 12 January 2017, CBFL Exco Member Umakanth Varottil presented a paper on "The Scheme of Arrangement as a Debt Restructuring Tool in India: Problems and Prospects" at a conference jointly hosted by the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore's Centre for Law and Business that considered the Scheme of Arrangement as a debt restructuring tool. He explored the possible reasons for the failure of the Indian Scheme of Arrangement to gain the currency and popularity that it has enjoyed in jurisdictions like Singapore or England and Wales, emphasising a range of institutional factors and the parallel development of other formal and informal resolution mechanisms.


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