The Future of Promissory Estoppel in Singapore Law

In the preface to the first Singapore and Malaysian edition of Cheshire, Fifoot, and Furmston’s Law of Contract in 1994, Yong Pung How CJ said: “The Singapore legal system should strive towards indigenous development, preferably by way of a rationalization of its basic laws in the first instance.”1...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yeo, Tiong Min
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/yph_lect/5
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=yph_lect
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
Description
Summary:In the preface to the first Singapore and Malaysian edition of Cheshire, Fifoot, and Furmston’s Law of Contract in 1994, Yong Pung How CJ said: “The Singapore legal system should strive towards indigenous development, preferably by way of a rationalization of its basic laws in the first instance.”1 Singapore law has come a long way since then. In recent years we have seen significant restatements by the Singapore judiciary in diverse areas including contract law, tort law, property law, company law and the conflict of laws. This paper will examine a small but basic topic, promissory estoppel, where there have been some important recent developments in Singapore and elsewhere.