[SMULA] Recent Highlights in Tort Law

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SMU LAW ACADEMY “RECENT HIGHLIGHTS” SERIES

Recent Highlights in Tort Law

Professor Gary Chan

Vice Provost (Faculty Matters)

SMU Yong Pung How School of Law

SYNOPSIS

The law of torts encompasses a wide and varied range of civil law wrongs and remedies. Each of the different torts continue to develop and evolve with the changing societal circumstances and adapt to address novel factual matrices. The webinar will focus on some significant Singapore court decisions on tort law in 2023. The list includes negligence, defamation, false imprisonment, deceit and conversion. It would also highlight related legal developments in selected common law jurisdictions.

This session is part of the SMU Law Academy “Recent Highlights” series. Designed with the busy practitioner in mind, this series provides participants with a convenient platform to obtain timely and practical bite-sized analysis of the latest developments in various areas of the law. The series will be taught by leading and experienced experts curated from academia and practice. Each topic in the series is distilled into a short-duration online webinar so that busy legal professionals can be effectively updated with the most material developments affecting their practice.

SPEAKER

Professor Gary Chan has been teaching courses on Law of Torts and Health Law and Medical Ethics, amongst others. Prior to joining academia in 2002, he had served as a judicial officer, corporate lawyer and in-house legal counsel. His main research interests are Tort Law, Health Law and Ethics and Singapore Legal System and he has published numerous law textbooks, book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals relating to these research areas.

FEES

a. Registration Fee
Registration fee of S$163.50* (inclusive of GST) applies

b. Group Registration
Registration fee of S$147.15* (inclusive of GST) applies if there are at least 10 participants from the same organisation.

c. SMU Alumni (LLB / JD / LLM graduates)
Registration fee of S$147.15* (inclusive of GST) applies for SMU LLB/ JD/ LLM Alumni

*Please note that there will be no refund of any fees should the participant cancel the registration/ fail to attend the event. However, registration is transferable. Notice of any change in participant should be sent to the Academy via email: smulawacademy@smu.edu.sg, by 29 September 2024.

SMU Law Academy reserves the right to cancel or postpone any event. In such case, we will arrange for the refund of fees paid.

Registration closes on 29 September 2024.

Complimentary for SMU Law Faculty, Staff & Students. Please sign up with your SMU email address.

DATE

4 October 2024

TIME

2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

PUBLIC CPD POINTS

2 points

VENUE

Webinar

PRACTICE AREA

Personal Injury

TRAINING LEVEL

Intermediate

PROGRAMME

2:15 PM	Participants log in to webinar

2:30 PM	Start of Event

4:30 PM	End of Event

ABOUT THE SMU LAW ACADEMY

The SMU Law Academy has an established track record of providing the legal profession with high quality seminars and other opportunities to remain fully informed about contemporary legal developments in Singapore and beyond. Its carefully curated listing of seminars is developed with the profession’s multi-faceted needs in mind and meets the requirements of the CPD scheme. The Academy also administers the Auditing Scheme which enables members of the legal profession to consolidate and upgrade their understanding of the law by auditing courses in the School’s LL.B., J.D. and LL.M. programmes. For an overview of upcoming SMU Law Academy events, please click here.

ABOUT THE SILE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME

This programme is an Accredited CPD Activity under the SILE’s CPD Scheme. Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points are reminded that they must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, this includes logging in at the start of the webinar and logging out at the conclusion of the webinar in the manner required by the organiser, and not being away from the entire activity for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy will not be able to obtain CPD Points for attending the activity. Please refer to http://www.silecpdcentre.sg for more information.

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