Keeping lawyers current

Even lawyers need help--a new initiative was launched in early January to help lawyers keep in touch with developments. Singapore Law Watch is a free "one-stop" legal news service bringing timely notifications of changes to laws and related developments. It provides readers the most current information including the latest legislative changes, new Supreme Court judgments, current legal news in the media, as well as articles and commentaries on the impact of new developments.

Lawyers are busy creatures and like most other people suffer from information-overload. So the hope is that this service will allow them to get the developments that impact them.

What is also fascinating to me is that the service is RSS-enabled which makes it handy for the tech-enabled lawyers to get the information pushed to them. The site is available to all so you do not need to be a lawyer to access this--non-lawyers as well as non-Singapore lawyers are also targeted in this effort to provide up-to-date developments. Access to legal information is after all part of access to justice.

Declaration of interest: I sit on the advisory board for Singapore Law Watch.

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Bryan Tan

Called to the Singapore and English Bars, Bryan Tan has practised in two of Singapore’s largest law firms and an international law firm. Bryan led many industry firsts including the first mass e-mail defamation case in the world, Singapore’s first publicised telecoms competition dispute, a pan-Asian co-branded travel portal, the first privately-funded cable landing project in Singapore and the world's first registrar-level domain name dispute. His areas of practice include information technology, telecommunications, biotechnology and bioinformatics, Chinese intellectual property, entertainment law and corporate work. He is also an author of Halsbury's Laws of Malaysia: E-Commerce. He also co-wrote the Singapore chapter of 'Digital Evidence' with Prof. Daniel Seng and is writing Halsbury's Laws of Singapore: E-Commerce.