Category: Conveyancing & Real Estate

Conveyancing & Real Estate

Building A Climate Change Resilient Supply Chain: The Time Is Now

Climate change will present ongoing challenges for global supply chains in the future, even as pandemic-related bottlenecks ease. It promises more unpredictable natural disasters which have potentially catastrophic consequences on global supply chains.

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), created in 2015 by Switzerland’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) has developed a framework for companies to disclose investor grade climate-related financial information.…

15 September 2022

Developments In Bankruptcy and Insolvency Laws In Singapore and Malaysia

This article looks at some recent developments in the bankruptcy and insolvency laws in Singapore and Malaysia.

Singapore: Dispositions of property

Under the Singapore bankruptcy law, any disposition of property made by a bankrupt since the day of making the application for the bankruptcy order is void unless the court consents to, or ratifies, the disposition.…

7 July 2021

Preventing Breaches of Negative Covenants

JTJB Legal Update November 2017

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The Singapore Court of Appeal recently had the opportunity to examine whether an injunction should be granted as of right when a party has breached a negative covenant, which is a promise made by a party to a contract to not do a particular act.…

4 December 2017

An Overview of The Lasting Power of Attorney

JTJB Legal Update November 2014

The Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) has received widespread attention from the public lately due to two high profile legal tussles.

One case was between former China tour guide Yang Yin and the niece of wealthy widow Madam Chung Khin Chun, 87, over her estimated $40 million assets.…

14 November 2014

“De-Coupling”

JTJB Legal Update January 2014

The Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD) was introduced in Singapore on 7 December 2011 as one of the cooling measures for residential properties. It applies to residential properties and to buyers, according to their profile and the number of residential properties they each own.…

15 January 2014

JTJB Represents Lagoon View Owners’ Association

JTJB represented Lagoon View Owners’ Association (LVOA) in the privatization exercise. The Sale and Purchase Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and LVOA for the purchase of the common area in Lagoon View was signed on the 30 June 2010. The matter was promptly completed in December 2010.…

9 May 2011

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