Author: Seng Siew Lim
HDB BTO and New Flats: Legal Milestones From Application to Key Collection
Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 7 of 12 Our previous instalment looked at buying a new launch private condominium. In this instalment we turn to HDB’s own new-build equivalent: the Build-To-Order (BTO) flat, along with Sale of Balance Flats and other new HDB offerings. The commercial experience, applying, balloting, waiting,…
Singapore Online Gambling Laws Part 3: A Business Guide
Many modern businesses do not think of themselves as gambling businesses. A fintech company processes payments. A cloud provider hosts infrastructure. A software company supplies analytics. A marketing agency runs campaigns. Yet each may find itself connected to gambling-related activities. Understanding Singapore’s gambling framework therefore matters even for businesses operating outside the gaming industry. The…
Lasting Power of Attorney: Planning for Incapacity, Not Just Death
A guide to the Lasting Power of Attorney in Singapore: donor and donee roles, the 2026 fee waiver, and what happens if you never make one.
AI and the Singapore Lawyer 8: AI in Family Practice—Supporting the Human Dimension
In the emotionally charged arena of family law, AI acts as a high-efficiency drafting and analytical clerk, reclaiming the mental bandwidth practitioners require to provide empathetic, high-stakes counsel.
Managing Underperforming Employees Part 4: De-Escalating the Toxic Exit Using Mutual Separation Agreements
Even with the best intentions, not every employment relationship is meant to last. Sometimes, an employee is simply a mismatch for your company’s culture, or the working relationship has fractured beyond the repair of a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). When a situation reaches a standstill, forcing a messy performance management process or issuing a sudden…
Buying a New Launch Condo: Progressive Payments and the Developer’s Sale & Purchase Agreement
Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 6 of 12 Buying a new launch condominium directly from a developer feels, on the surface, similar to buying a resale unit: you view a unit (or, more often, a showflat and floor plans), agree on a price, and sign an option. Underneath, the legal…
Seng Siew Speaks at Law Society’s AI Primer Seminar
We are pleased to share that our Director, Lim Seng Siew, presented at the Law Society of Singapore’s recent event, “Introduction to AI in Legal Technology – A Primer for Senior Practitioners 3.0”, held on Wednesday, 21 October 2026, at the Alive Atrium. Organised by the Law Society’s Senior Practitioners’ Committee, the interactive session brought…
Digital Pranks, AI Media, and Criminal Liability: A Singapore Law Perspective
With generative artificial intelligence tools and image manipulation applications now accessible on almost every smartphone, creating convincing digital content takes seconds. A user can easily generate an image of a dangerous wild animal in a residential neighborhood, simulate a serious industrial accident, or depict fictional damage to public infrastructure. While these tools are often used…
Advance Care Planning: Why a Conversation Matters as Much as a Document
Part of the Own Your Legacy: Getting Your Wills, LPAs, and Directives Sorted series Of the instruments covered in this series, Advance Care Planning is the least legally formal and, for that reason, the one people most often underestimate. It is not a single signed form with a fixed legal trigger, the way an Advance…
The Digital Ghost – Defamation and Content Liability
As SMEs use AI to generate marketing content at scale, they face a new liability: defamatory output. This article examines how Singapore defamation law applies to AI-generated content and the safeguards that protect your business.
EU AI Act Transparency Rules: What Singapore SMEs Need to Know
When the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) came into force, many Singapore small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) assumed it was a distant European concern. It isn’t. Due to its extraterritorial reach, any Singapore company deploying AI tools that interact with EU residents, market products in Europe, or generate synthetic content reaching the…
ABSD, BSD and SSD Explained: What Buyers and Sellers Actually Pay
Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 5 of 12 Few aspects of a Singapore property transaction cause as much last-minute anxiety as stamp duty, largely because the acronyms (BSD, ABSD, SSD) are unfamiliar and the amounts involved can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this instalment, we set out…
