Reform of the Choice of Law Rule Relating to Torts: Report of the Law Reform Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law

• Main Authors: YIM, Jimmy, Divyyanathan, Suresh, Liew, Woon Yin, Tan, Yock Lin, Lee, Joel Tye Beng, Yeo, Tiong Min
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2003
• Subjects: Comparative and Foreign Law; Torts
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/233; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/1232/viewcontent/YeoTM2003Reform_of_choice_of_law.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

An act done abroad is actionable as a tort in Singapore if it is both actionable as a tort according to the law of Singapore and the law where the act was done. This double actionability rule which requires actionability by the law of Singapore even though the act in question was done abroad, was fi...