[SMULA] Legal Developments in the Field of Contract-Related Remedies

Numerous consequences surround the vitiation and the breach of a contract. Interestingly, cases in recent years have (re)examined issues that are often taken as trite, such as the conceptual nature of damages and equitable relief and the quantification of awards. The Singapore courts have also touched on issues of significant practical relevance, such as the requirements to recover wasted expenditure or to sustain a cost-of-cure award. This seminar discusses some of the latest developments in the field of contract-related remedies taking shape in Singapore and elsewhere in the Commonwealth.  
  

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Lau Kwan Ho is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU). He teaches and researches primarily in the law of contracts. His other research interests include the legal process and the development of the legal profession. His work is cited by courts in Singapore and Hong Kong, by sitting Commonwealth judges in extra-judicial speeches, by regulatory bodies and in academic treatises and articles regularly. He has given expert evidence on Singapore law in foreign court proceedings.

Kwan Ho is concurrently the Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia. Prior to joining SMU, he practised law in the M&A department of a major Singapore law firm, was in-house counsel at a sovereign wealth fund, and served in the Supreme Court of Singapore as a Justices’ Law Clerk.

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