Article
Following English Footsteps? An Empirical Study of Singapore's Reported Insurance Judgments and Disputes between 1965 and 2012
2013 MCU Cross-Strait and International Conference on Financial and Banking Law, 23-24 November 2013, Taipei
Publication Type
Presentation
Publication Date
11-2013
Abstract
This article presents an empirical study of the development of Singapore’s insurance contract law in relation to English law. The gene of Singapore’s insurance law is very English. The empirical data show a lack of momentum in driving insurance law forward by case law. This may justify further legislative reform to address not only the known doctrinal issues inherited from English law but also the specific problems facing consumer insurance. Singapore’s competitiveness in the global insurance market will be an instrumental factor to determine how far Singapore continues to follow English law in the future.
Keywords
- insurance law,
- Singapore,
- legal transplant,
- common law,
- empirical study,
- law reform
Discipline
City or Country
Taipei, Taiwan
Additional URL
http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=1582025
Citation Information
Christopher Chao-hung CHEN. "Following English Footsteps? An Empirical Study of Singapore's Reported Insurance Judgments and Disputes between 1965 and 2012" 2013 MCU Cross-Strait and International Conference on Financial and Banking Law, 23-24 November 2013, Taipei (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher_chen/29/