Author: Seng Siew Lim

  • Company Charges In The British Virgin Islands

    Company Charges In The British Virgin Islands

    This article summarises British Virgin Islands registration requirements for company charges. The BVI is a popular offshore financial center used by many Singapore companies and high networth individuals.

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  • Legal Practice in the Age of EFS

    Legal Practice in the Age of EFS

    Lim Seng Siew, Chairman of the Law Society’s EFS Committee, introduces us to the Electronic Filing System (EFS) and gives us an informative view of what legal practice in Singapore will be like in the age of EFS.

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  • Litigation: A Decade of Change

    Litigation: A Decade of Change

    The article traces the changes in the court system and the civil litigation process in Singapore.

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  • The Convention on the Rights of the Child

    The Convention on the Rights of the Child

    An introduction to the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history is the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the United Nations on 20th November 1989.

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  • Anti-Spam Measures And Junk E-mail

    Anti-Spam Measures And Junk E-mail

    Considerations of how anti-spam measures should work.

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  • The Role of Service Bureaux in EFS

    The Role of Service Bureaux in EFS

    Service bureaux are probably the first contact points with EFS for most law firms. So what are service bureaux? Who will be dealing with them and what are the procedures? Lim Seng Siew takes us on a brief but enlightening tour of what it will be like to deal with them when filing documents under…

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  • The Multi-Level Marketing And Pyramid Selling (Prohibition) Act

    The Multi-Level Marketing And Pyramid Selling (Prohibition) Act

    On overview of the The Multi-Level Marketing And Pyramid Selling (Prohibition) Act and related regulations.

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  • Searching the World Wide Web

    Searching the World Wide Web

    How to use search tools to effectively search the Internet.

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  • The US – Singapore Free Trade Agreement

    The US – Singapore Free Trade Agreement

    Comments on the US – Singapore Free Trade Agreement

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  • Adoption: A True Story

    Adoption: A True Story

    The names in this story have been changed to protect the identity of the persons involved. I took on this case as a favour for a friend, a lawyer herself. She had represented this couple, Mr. and Mrs. Ang, in 2 of their previous adoption proceedings. It is a rare case as both the children,…

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  • Findings of the Census of the Legal Industry, 2001

    Findings of the Census of the Legal Industry, 2001

    A Summary of the Results of the Census of the Legal Industry, 2001

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  • Open Source Licences

    Open Source Licences

    A short article on open source licences.

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