“It is no overstatement to say that Mr Chow is the doyen of Singapore construction law and is perhaps the foremost authority on this topic.”

Produced by the who''''s who of the arbitral fraternity

The general editorial team, comprising Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, Mr Francis Xavier, SC, Mr Chong Yee Leong and Prof Lucy Reed, hail from Singapore - the third-most preferred venue for international arbitration in the world. 

The first competition annotation released in Singapore that encapsulates the changes made to the law up to April 2018.

Additional chapter & updated contents reflecting changes to the law in 2018.

The second edition reflects the latest changes in the law up to February 2018 to clearly provide you with a holistic view on Evidence Law in Singapore. Moving beyond Singapore, the applicability of evidence law related in international tribunals is covered in the new chapter to benefit arbitrators.

Navigate the regulatory requirements under the Companies Act 2016 with confidence! 

• headnotes summarising the facts and decision in the judgment; and 
• critical commentaries by expert legal practitioners and adjudication panellists discussing on the effect and impact of the decision in the construction industry and adjudication.

Describes in detail the types of legal research methodology available, data analysis and the significance of a given study, topic selection and problem identification, and the formulation of research objectives.

This publication presents the full text of the new Insolvency Act 1967, together with an Expert Overview that is written by an expert of Malaysian company, insolvency and bankruptcy law to provide a quick summary of the workings of the new Act. It serves as a first point of reference to facilitate a good understanding of the new statutory regime regulating individuals and firms, and its related practices in Malaysia. 

Company Law in Hong Kong: Insolvency, 2019 provides the most recent precedents, case law, decisions, and amended legislation relating to all the surviving sections of the re-titled Companies (Winding-Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32). The text includes reviews and analyses of the fully enacted 2017 amendments designed to:

(i) increase and enhance protection for creditors;
(ii) streamline the winding-up process;
(iii) strengthen the regulations under the winding-up regime;
(iv) enhance the integrity of the winding-up process; and
(v) related consequential and minor technical
amendments to the law for easier understanding.

• Authored and annotated by Knut Fournier, Chairman of the Hong Kong Competition Association.

• A single and complete text reviewing and analysing all sections of the law as amended over the last four years, fully incorporating all recent changes to the law including:

           (i) new Parts 3A and 14A added to the Ordinance

           (ii) related amendments in accordance to the new provisions of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.622) and Financial Institutions (Resolution) Ordinance (Cap.628)

• Annotated and edited by Mr. Laurence Li, Barrister-at-Law from Temple Chambers and a team of distinguished contributors, including former Enforcement Director and legal counsel from the Securities and Futures Commission

The 2018 Edition is fully updated and incorporated – reviewing and analysing all the amendments and revisions to the law over the last four years with cross-referencing to corresponding legislation:

• The definitive analytical text on Hong Kong company law covering all the recent applications, case law, and updates on the progress of Hong Kong’s new companies regime.

Chitty on Contracts is the pre-eminent reference work on contract law in the common law world. It has been used for generations by lawyers as the leading guide to contracts, and is relied on to provide insight and aid in complex areas of the law.

The work is in two volumes:

Volume One covers the General Principles of contract law, while Volume Two offers guidance on Specific Contracts, namely contractual issues in specific industry sectors. (Volume One of the work is available as a standalone for those who need coverage of the general principles of contract law only).

KEY FEATURES:

Provides coverage of all relevant legislation and a huge depth of case reference;

• Presents complete coverage of the law of contract, incorporating extensive reference to relevant legislation and recent case law
• Contains interpretation and analysis of general legislation since the last edition,
• Provides an in-depth examination of actions arising in contract law, including exclusion clauses, estoppel, illegality and public policy, mistake, misrepresentation and non-disclosure, breach of performance
• Covers the formation of contract as it effects the Agreement; Consideration, Form, Mistake; Misrepresentation and Duress and Undue Influence;
• Treats in detail the Capacity of parties
• Analyses and comments on the terms of the contract relating to Express and Implied Terms; Exemption Clauses; Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts; and Arbitration Clauses;
• Examines Illegality and Public Policy
• Under Joint obligations covers in detail the law of contract relating to Third Parties, Assignment;, Death and Bankruptcy
• Examines and analyses contract law in relation to performance and discharge, covering Discharge by Agreement; by Frustration; by Breach;
• Studies remedies for breach of contract, including damages and limitations
• Discusses Restitution in relation to contract law
• Analyses conflict of laws as if affects contract law
• Deals individually with contracts in the following areas of law: agency, arbitration, bailment, bills of exchange and banking, building contracts, carriage by air, carriage by land, construction, credit and security, employment, gaming and wagering, insurance, restrictive agreements and covenants, sale of goods and suretyship
• Offers interpretation and advice on the law when disputes arise, or when technical areas need clarification, and when responsibilities, obligations and entitlements need to be established
• Supplemented regularly
• Written by experts in contract law

Key new case law and legislation covered in Chitty 33

• Impact of Human Rights Act 1998: McDonald v McDonald (SC)
• Oral agreements for sale of land: Dowding v Matchmove Ltd (CA)           
• Fraud: Hayward v Zurich Insurance Co plc (SC)
• 'No reliance' clauses: First Tower Trustees Ltd v CDS (Superstores International) Ltd (CA)
• Interpretation: Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd (SC)
• Implied terms: Marks and Spencer plc v BNP Paribas Securities Services Trust Co (Jersey) Ltd (SC)
• 'No oral variations' clause; part payment of debt: MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd v Rock Advertising Ltd (SC)
• Acts of State: Mohammed v Ministry of Defence,  Benkharbouche v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Belhaj v Straw (SC)
• Illegality: Patel v Mirza (SC)
• Damages for third party's loss: Swynson Ltd v Lowick Rose LLP (SC)
• Assignment: - set-off: Bibby Factors Northwest Ltd v HFD Ltd (CA); - prohibitions on assignment: Business Contract Terms (Assignment of Receivables) Regulations 2018 (draft)
• Damages: SAAMCo: - Hughes-Holland v BPE Solicitors; - mitigation: Fulton Shipping Inc of Panama v Globalia Business Travel SAU (SC);  - 'negotiating damages':  Morris-Garner v One Step (Support) Ltd (SC)
• Liquidated damages: Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi and ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis (SC)
• Restitution: Bank of Cyprus UK Ltd v Menelaou (SC); Investment Trust Companies v Revenue and Customs Commissioners (SC); Lowick Rose LLP v Swynson Ltd; Angove’s Pty Ltd v Bailey (SC); Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners (SC)
• Agency: - irrevocable authority: Bailey v Angove’s Pty Ltd (SC); commercial agents: ERGO Poist’ovna a.s. C-48/16 (CJEU)
• Banking: Payment Services Regulations 2017
• Consumer law: Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 (draft); ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis (SC); Court of Justice cases on acting as a consumer; mixed purposes contracts; guarantees of loan by consumer to commercial company; traders as intermediaries for non-traders; when a court must raise EU consumer legislation on its own motion; commercial practices, including  misleading actions and misleading omissions; the exemption for the “main subject matter of the contract”; fairness under the 1993 Directive and choice of law clauses; collective actions and stays of proceedings.
• Credit and security: implementation of the Mortgage Credit Directive
• Employment: CJEU cases on 'rolled-up holiday pay' and on 'working time'
• Insurance: Insurance Act 2015, including new ss 13A and 16A (late payment of claims); - fraudulent claims:  Versloot Dredging BV v HDI Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG (SC); interpretation of exclusions: Impact Funding Solutions Ltd v Barrington Support Services Ltd  (SC)
• Gaming -  'cheating': Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd
• Sale of goods: - retention of title clause: PST Energy Shipping Ltd v OW Bunker Malta Ltd (SC) 

A classic construction law text Keating on Construction Contracts is a first port of call for all research on the history and principles governing building contracts, their practical application and their interpretation by the courts. Renowned for its accessible style and reliable authority the title covers all relevant legislation and case law, EC law, and the FIDIC, NEC3, JCT Forms of Contracts and ICE Conditions of Contract.

Featuring:

• Offers solicitors, barristers and construction professionals detailed and authoritative commentary on all issues relating to construction contracts, from an examination of Employer's Approval and Architect's Certificates to a recently added chapter on Delay and Disruption
• Presents in depth practical help, delivered in a concise style, discussing legal principles, analysing judicial decisions, interrogating standard forms and interpreting legislation
• Discusses in detail the standard form agreements upon which Building and Construction activity turns including commentary on Infrastructure Conditions of Contract, NEC3, FIDIC and JCT contracts 
• Goes through the workflow of a construction contract, its formation and  composition
• Examines the contractor’s right to payment and the recovery of payment for varied work
• Deals with employer’s approval of the contracted work and the formal requirements of an architect’s certificate
• Goes through such issues as excuses for non-performance, negligence and economic loss, and delay and disruption claims
• Covers financial recovery and causation and liquidated damages and penalties
• Addresses various equitable doctrines and remedies
• Considers assignments, substituted contracts and sub-contracts
• Reproduces relevant statutes including the 1996 Act as amended by 2009 Act, and the Scheme for Construction Contracts for easy access and navigation
• Includes expanded coverage on procurement and the effect, and the Jackson reforms regarding proportionate costs and case management
• Provides up-to-date references to and guidance on key primary case law and decisions from the UK, Europe and overseas, for example, the Court of Appeal decision in P.C. Harrington v Systech; the Court of Appeal decision in Lanes Group plc v Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd
• Ensures full coverage of Supreme Court cases which continue to define principles of contractual construction, for example, the Supreme Court decisions in Rainy Sky S.A. v Kookmin Bank; Berrisford (FC) v Mexfield Housing Co-Operative Ltd and Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland v Lloyds Banking Group plc (Scotland); The Supreme Court decision in Benedetti v Swairis The TCC decision in Walter Lilly v DMW Developments
• Joint edited in three previous editions by Stephen Furst QC (Deputy Judge of the Technology and Construction Court and Recorder and member of Keating Chambers, acting for clients in the field of construction in all UK courts and forms of arbitration) and Sir Vivian Ramsey (former civil engineer and Head of Chambers, prior to joining the Bench, and serving in the Technology & Construction Court).
• Contributed to by a stellar supporting team of experts from Keating Chambers who have been voted Construction Set of the Year in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

• Analyses current case law and interprets applicable legislation
• Provides clear, concise analysis applicable to generalist and specialist practitioners
• Provides authoritative guidance

• Fully up-to-date, including discussion of relevant statutory provisions and Commonwealth case law
• Detailed discussion of developing caselaw on the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Chapter on informed consent rewritten to take account of the Supreme Court decision in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
• Discussion of the emerging tort of misuse of private information
• Full reference to relevant professional guidance issued by the General Medical Council (Good Medical Practice, 2013 and Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information, 2017)
• Revised system of headings/sub-headings to provide easier navigation of the text

• Provides solutions to the most complex legal problems relating to judicial review.
• Analyses both the theoretical foundations of the subject and its practice.
• Supplies comprehensive guidance on what to do at every stage of an action for judicial review.
• Explains the impact of the latest case law and procedural developments.
• Sets judicial review in the context of the fast-changing administrative justice system (including “proportionate dispute resolution”, the new tribunal system, recourse to ombudsmen).
• Draws on relevant experience from other Commonwealth jurisdictions, especially Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa.