Practical Law: Litigation & Dispute Resolution - Singapore

22 November 2023

Allen & Gledhill Partner Loong Tse Chuan authored the following Singapore practice notes on Litigation and Dispute Resolution for Practical Law Global:

• Legal Professional Privilege and Professional Secrecy: This note provides an overview of the laws relating to the protection available to lawyer-client communications and the best practices for preserving the confidentiality, privilege and secrecy in those communications in business and commercial situations.
• Recovery of Trade Debts: This note provides Singapore-specific information on the legal options available to a business creditor looking to recover a trade debt in a business-to-business context.
• Pre-action Letters: This note provides an overview of the key issues to consider before issuing or responding to a pre-action letter in Singapore.
• Service of Claim Documents: This note provides an overview of the framework for service of claim documents (in relation to domestic and foreign proceedings) in Singapore.
• Rules of Evidence (Civil Proceedings): This note provides an overview of the rules governing disclosure and the admissibility of evidence in civil proceedings.
• Attachment (Freezing) Orders: This note provides an overview on the laws relating to orders of attachment issued by the Singapore courts to preserve a respondent’s assets until judgment can be enforced.

Allen & Gledhill first contributed these practice notes in 2018. The practice notes have been amended to take into consideration the changes to Singapore’s civil procedure rules via the Rules of Court 2021.

Reproduced from Practical Law with the permission of the publishers. For further information, visit www.practicallaw.com.