The School of Law Annual Lecture Series 2023

The School of Law Annual Lecture Series 2023 In this lecture, Justice Phang will demonstrate the importance of comparative common law, utilising case law illustrations from Singapore in the Law of Contract, the Law of Tort and the Law of Unjust Enrichment.  He will demonstrate the importance of the role of a comparative approach towards common law in the development of one’s own domestic common law. Justice Phang was appointed Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore on 3 January 2005 and elevated to a Judge on 9 December 2005, before his appointment as Judge of Appeal on 28 February 2006.  He was appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal on 28 September 2017.  He retired on 15 December 2022 and was appointed a Senior Judge of the Supreme Court with effect from 2 January 2023.  He was also appointed Distinguished Term Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University in January 2023 and is presently also a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Reading.He has also authored more than 260 academic publications and close to 400 judgments. 

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