The book is intended to serve as a core textbook for students studying Equity and Trusts in Singapore, and as a useful reference for practitioners.
As such, it will closely cover the Equity and Trusts course syllabuses in all three local law schools.
Trust Law in Singapore has come a long way from its English roots. The successful development of an indigenous legal system in Singapore has meant that Singapore Trusts Law now has its own rich jurisprudence that draws on the best legal thinking throughout the Commonwealth, while retaining its own character. Developments in English law remain persuasive, though the Singapore courts are ready to depart from them where they are inappropriate for the local context or where there are disagreements on principle.
This book is designed to lay out the Law of Trusts as it currently stands in Singapore. Special care has been taken to cite local precedents, statutes and academic writing where available. It is hoped that this book will be a useful resource for practitioners and students alike, as it offers more in-depth analysis at points, while also striving to be accessible to those embarking upon the subject for the first time.
Vincent Ooi is a Lecturer at the Singapore Management University (“SMU”) Yong Pung How School of Law and incoming Deputy Head of Tax at ZICO Insights Law LLC. He was previously a Law Supervisor at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia (“CCLA”), SMU, and a researcher at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, National University of Singapore (“NUS”).
Vincent has contributed to both tax volumes of Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore. He is currently reading for a PhD in Tax Law at Downing College, Cambridge. Vincent graduated from Trinity College, University of Oxford with double first class honours, where he was the top law student in Trinity College, Mowat Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal. Vincent has appeared before all three tax boards of review.
Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law, Oxford University and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge and was in the first cohort of students to spend their third year at the University of Poiters, France. He then spent a year at Harvard Law School (LLM) and read for the BCL at Brasenose College.
Christopher initially practised as a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn before moving to a fellowship and college lectureship at Jesus College, Cambridge.
He has spent the last seven years in New Zealand, where he was a Senior Lecturer in the Law Faculty at the University of Auckland. Christopher's teaching and research interests lie broadly in the law of obligations and the corporate and commercial law fields, with particular focus on domestic and international banking law, corporate finance, and shareholder remedies.