The SingaporeLaw Committee, officially formed and supported by the Singapore Academy of Law and the Ministry of Law, devises and implements strategies and activities to increase the international profile of Singapore law and to promote Singapore as a centre for dispute resolution.
The Committee is headed and chaired by The Honourable Justice V K Rajah. The members of the Committee come from a diverse background and include a Supreme Court Judge, senior officers of the Ministry of Law, the Supreme Court, legal academia and senior practising lawyers. These members contribute their ideas and time to enhance the effectiveness of the promotion strategy and activities.
The focus of the Committee is to encourage parties to choose Singapore law as the governing law for their international commercial transactions, for example, where foreign parties are unable to agree on the use of the law of the jurisdiction of one of the parties, or when Singapore parties enter into agreements with foreign parties. The Committee also encourages parties to use Singapore as a venue for dispute resolution when a neutral location is required.
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Singapore Academy of Law
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The Singapore Academy of Law is the umbrella membership body of the legal community in Singapore and has more than 7,000 members. They include all advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court, members of the Singapore Judiciary and Legal Service officers, corporate counsel and faculty members of law schools. The President of the Academy is the Honourable the Chief Justice of Singapore.
The Academy's activities are driven by three strategic priorities - enhancing legal knowledge, improving efficiency of legal practice through the use of technology and supporting the legal industry. The work in each of these areas is directed towards raising the standards and quality of legal practice and building a strong legal community in Singapore.
Members are kept updated on the latest developments impacting the profession, through a series of continuing legal education programmes organised by the Academy. The Academy also supports research into law reform and legal heritage, is the official law reporting agency in Singapore and is actively engaged in the publishing of other legal texts. On the technology front, the Academy is responsible for the development and management of LawNet, an IT portal which provides users instant access to a wide range of legal information and transactional databases.
Under its SingaporeLaw initiative, the Academy actively promotes the use of Singapore's legal and dispute resolution services to the region. A subsidiary of the Academy, The Singapore Mediation Centre, focuses on providing commercial mediation services and conducts mediation training workshops regionally.
More information can be found here.
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