Private Law

Also see Funds and Private Wealth and Real Estate Taxation

Academic Research
1. Singapore Trusts Law, (1st Ed) (2021) (LexisNexis) (With Christopher Hare)
– “An excellent work — comprehensive in scope and clear as well as perceptive in its discourse and analysis, with Singapore cases cited wherever possible.” (Justice Andrew Phang, “Trusts Law in Comparative Context” (2021) 4 MLJ clxxxvii-cxcvii, clxxxix)
– “Provides a strong and detailed coverage of the current state of Singapore trust law.” (Dr Joyman Lee [2022] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 485-488)
– “Chapters provide a comprehensive, accurate, yet succinct survey of the law as it stands in Singapore… an excellent volume.” (Soh Kian Peng (2023) 35 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 459-461)
2. “Holding Residential Property on Inter Vivos Trusts in Singapore: Transfers of Equity Interests” (2022) 28(10) Trusts & Trustees 949-959
3. “Holding Residential Property on Inter Vivos Trusts in Singapore: Transfers to Trustees” (2022) 28(10) Trusts & Trustees 938-948
4. “Blockchain Land Transfers: Technology, Promises, and Perils” (2022) 45 (105672) Computer Law & Security Review 1-13 (With Soh Kian Peng and Jerrold Soh) 
– [Supported by the National Research Foundation Grant (under the Centre for AI and Data Governance)]
5. “Contracts Formed by Software: An Approach from the Law of Mistake” (2022) Journal of Business Law 97-117
– [Supported by the National Research Foundation Grant (under the Centre for AI and Data Governance)]
6. “Singapore Company Law and the Economy: Reciprocal Influence over 50 Years”, (2019) 27(1) Asia Pacific Law Review 14-38 (With Tan Cheng Han)
7. “Decisional and Operational Negligence” (2018) 34(4) Journal of Professional Negligence 171-189
8. “Rethinking Mistake in the Age of Algorithms” (2020) 31(3) King’s Law Journal 367-372 (With Soh Kian Peng)
– [Supported by the National Research Foundation Grant (under the Centre for AI and Data Governance)]
9. “Cryptocurrencies and Code before the Courts” (2019) 30(3) King’s Law Journal 331-337 (With Soh Kian Peng) 
– [Supported by the National Research Foundation Grant (under the Centre for AI and Data Governance)]
10. “A Reformulated Test for Unconscionability” (2019) 135(3) Law Quarterly Review 400-405 (With Walter Yong) 
11. “Dividing the Single Indivisible Transaction: Balancing the Interests of Mortgagees and Innocent Occupants” (2015) 4 Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal 37-52
– [Paper won the Norton Rose Fulbright Prize for the Best Article in Contract, Tort, Trusts, and Land Law; and the Douglas Sladen Essay Prize (2nd Prize)]
12. “Family Offices, Private Trust Companies and Trust Integrity Issues: Problems and Solutions”, in Trusts and Private Wealth Management: Developments and Directions, Richard Nolan, Tang Hang Wu and Yip Man (eds) (2022) (CUP) (With Chan Ee Lin) 129-150
13. “Business Trusts Act (Cap 31A)”, in Woon’s Corporations Law, Walter Woon (ed) (2020) (LexisNexis)
14. “Business Trusts Act (Cap 31A)”, in Woon’s Corporations Law, Walter Woon (ed) (2018) (LexisNexis)

Other Publications
1. Machine Lawyering, 2 September 2020, “Rethinking Mistake in the Age of Algorithms” (available at https://www.legalanalytics.law.cuhk.edu.hk/post/rethinking-mistake-in-the-age-of-algorithms) (With Soh Kian Peng)
2. Oxford Business Law Blog, 11 November 2019, “Contracts Formed by Software: When Things Go Wrong” (available at https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2019/11/contracts-formed-software-when-things-go-wrong)
3. Machine Lawyering, 30 September 2019, “Cryptocurrencies and Code Before the Courts” (available at https://www.legalanalytics.law.cuhk.edu.hk/single-post/2019/09/30/Cryptocurrencies-and-Code-Before-the-Courts) (With Soh Kian Peng)