Private Law
The Private Law Cluster facilitates research and debates across all areas of private law including contract, equity, property, restitution, torts, and trusts. It seeks to foster diversity in research perspectives (comparative, doctrinal, economical, historical, policy, theoretical and cross-disciplinary) with the aim of providing a support base for colleagues to produce cutting-edge and high-impact research. It has the further aim of encouraging collaboration between colleagues in the Cluster.
Research Cluster Coordinator
Associate Professor Yip Man
Email: manyip@smu.edu.sg
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
| Author List | Publication Year | Title | Journal Name |
| CHAN, Gary Kok Yew | 2019 | Search engines and internet defamation: Of publication and legal responsibility | Computer Law and Security Review |
| Alvin W-L See | 2019 | Severance by Unilateral Declaration: Lessons From Singapore | Conveyancer and Property Lawyer |
| Alvin W-L See | 2019 | Recovering Misdirected Trust Assets in the Face of Torrens Indefeasibility | Journal of Equity |
| CHNG, Kenny; CHAN, Gary; GOH, Yihan | 2019 | A novel development of tort law: Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2018] UKSC 4 | Torts Law Journal |
| YIP, Man; SEE, Alvin W. L. | 2019 | One step away from Morris-Garner: Wrotham park damages in Singapore | Law Quarterly Review |
| LEE, Pey Woan | 2018 | Unravelling civil conspiracy | Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly |
| YEO, Tiong Min | 2018 | Unjust enrichment: Revolution and evolution in the Asia-Pacific | Restitution Law Review |
| LOW, Kelvin; LOI, Kelry C. F. | 2018 | Bunkers in wonderland: A tale of how the growth of Romalpa Clauses shrank the English Law of Sales | Journal of Business Law |
| YIP, Man | 2018 | Protecting consumers' personal data in the digital world: Challenges and changes | Protecting consumers' personal data in the digital world: Challenges and changes |
| YIP, Man | 2018 | Trust-owned companies: Understanding the trustee’s duties | Trust Law International |
| TANG, Hang Wu | 2018 | From Waqf, ancestor worship to the rise of the global trust: A history of the use of the trust as a vehicle for wealth transfer in Singapore | Iowa Law Review |
| TANG, Hang Wu | 2018 | Compelling trustees to exercise their discretion: A principle of non-intervention? | Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft |
| SEE, Alvin W. L. | 2018 | Revisiting sham trusts: Common intention, estoppel and illegality | Conveyancer and Property Lawyer |
| SEE, Alvin W. L | 2018 | User damages and the limits of compensatory reasoning | Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly |
| LEE, Chia Ming; CHNG, Kenny | 2018 | Lord Denning’s influence on contract formation in Singapore: An overdue demise? | Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal |
| TI, Edward S. W. | 2018 | An overlooked overriding interest in Singapore's Torrens system? | Conveyancer and Property Lawyer |
| THAM, Chee Ho | 2018 | Different debts for different purposes: Taurus v SOMO [2017] UKSC 64; [2017] 3 WLR 1170 | Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly |
| LOW, Kelvin F. K.; SEE, Alvin W. L. | 2018 | Recent developments: Presumed resulting trusts, vitiating factors for trusts, interrupting adverse possession, and abandonment of leasehold covenants | Property Law Review |
| ONG, Benjamin Joshua | 2018 | Premature service of payment claims under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act: Audi Construction Pte Ltd v Kian Hiap Construction Pte Ltd | Singapore Journal of Legal Studie |
| SEE, Alvin W-L | 2018 | Transferor's intention, trustee's undertaking and the scope of fiduciary liability | Trust Law International |
BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS
| Author List | Publication Year | Title | Publication Type |
| THAM, Chee Ho | 2019 | Understanding the law of assignment (forthcoming) | Monograph |
| NOLAN, Richard C.; LOW, Kelvin F. K.; TANG, Hang Wu | 2018 | Trusts and modern wealth management | Edited Book |
| SEE, Alvin; MAN, Yip; GOH, Yihan | 2018 | Property and trust law in Singapore | Monograph |
BOOK CHAPTERS
| Author List | Publication Year | Title |
| LEE, Pey Woan; CHNG, Wei Yao Kenny | 2019 | Mistake |
| Lee Pey Woan | 2019 | Form, substance and recharacterisation |
| 2019 | Chapter 8 Consideration & Intention to Create Legal Relations | |
| 2019 | Chapter 10 - Terms of the Contract | |
| 2019 | Chapter 9 Capacity & Privity of Contract | |
| LOW, Kee Yang | 2019 | Misrepresentation |
| LOW, Kee Yang | 2019 | Frustration |
| LEE, Pey Woan; GOH, Yihan; THAM, Chee Ho | 2018 | Contract law |
| LOW, Kelvin F. K.; TEO, Ernie | 2018 | Legal risks of owning cryptocurrencies |
| TANG, Hang Wu | 2018 | Financial planning mechanisms available to persons with special needs In Singapore |
| TANG, Hang Wu | 2018 | Derivative actions on behalf of the trust |
| TANG, Hang Wu | 2018 | Equity & trusts |
| WU, Ying Chieh | 2018 | Ascertaining contractual terms in Taiwan |
| WU, Ying Chieh | 2018 | Contract formation in Taiwan |