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About Singapore Law Watch
1. What is Singapore Law Watch?
2. What content does SLW have?
3. Why can’t I find a particular judgment or news article on SLW? How long is information archived on SLW for?
4. Can I refer to SLW for legal advice?
Receiving SLW
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Submitting to SLW and advertisements
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About Singapore Law Watch
Singapore Law Watch (“SLW”) is a free daily legal news service, provided by the Singapore Academy of Law, for the legal community in Singapore and abroad. It has on average, close to 70,000 visitors, 110,000 sessions and 200,000 page views a month, as well as almost 11,500 subscribers to its daily e-mail service.
Our legal editors monitor more than 40 Singapore sources to curate and compile a news service that is updated daily. Our news service is accessed by readers mainly through RSS as well as through our daily email service. We feature the latest Singapore headlines in the field of law and law-related topics, judgments, case highlights, legislation as well as a current listing of seminars and publications. SLW helps you manage your legal knowledge more efficiently by compiling the latest legal developments and promptly channelling them to your desktop for you to share and use. With the latest information at your fingertips, you can keep in touch with the latest news in the legal industry, make better legal assessments and manage legal risk more effectively.
All content in SLW are archived in LawNet except the following:
(a) Headlines;
(b) Legislation; &
(c) listings under the Continuing Legal Education page.
SLW is updated every weekday except on public holidays.
SLW monitors more than 40 sources and we organise the information in the following sections:
Headlines
Our most read section, keep in touch with the latest legal news articles collated from The Straits Times, The Business Times, Lianhe Zaobao and TODAY. News is archived in SLW for four weeks.
Commentaries
We aggregate commentaries including:
• case notes and case commentaries from the SAL Journals, SAL Practitioner and SAL Annual Review;
• legal updates contributed by Singapore-based firms; and
• case summaries on decisions from the Intellectual Property of Singapore (IPOS), Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) and the various Tax Boards.
Judgments
We publish the latest
• Supreme Court of Singapore judgments; and
• Intellectual Property of Singapore (IPOS) and Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) decisions, including those from various Tax Boards.
Legislation
This section lists the latest Bills introduced, Acts brought into operation, Subsidiary Legislation and new revised editions of legislation published. This information is obtained from the Singapore Statutes Online website and it is updated daily.
Notices & Directions
We list the most updated Supreme, State, Family Justice and Syriah Courts Practice Directions and Registrar’s Circulars, Law Society Notices, as well as MAS and SGX Notices & Directions. This information is provided by the relevant Courts, the Law Society of Singapore, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Singapore Exchange Limited.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
We highlight upcoming seminars and publications from the Law Society of Singapore, Singapore Academy of Law, National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University amongst others.
About Singapore Law
This section serves as an introduction to Singapore law and contains content from SLW's sister website singaporelaw.sg, which merged with SLW in 2018. You can find information about the various government legal institutions and dispute resolution bodies. There are also chapters on different areas of law written by academics and legal practitioners.
Content on SLW is databased for a limited period of time:
• Headline news is databased for four weeks from the date of publication.
• Judgments from the year 2000 onwards are databased permanently.
• Commentaries, and Notices & Directions are databased for three months from the date of publication.
• Legislation published in the last three months are listed on SLW.
To access SLW content that is no longer available on our website, please do so at LawNet.
SLW shall be entitled at any time, at its sole and absolute discretion and without prior notice, to add to, vary, terminate, withdraw or suspend the operation of the whole or any part or feature of the SLW website or services without assigning any reason. Please refer to the Terms of Use here.
SLW is an aggregator of news and information. As such we do not dispense legal advice. Please consult a qualified lawyer for professional legal advice.
Receiving Singapore Law Watch
• Subscribe to the Daily Email updates and updates will be delivered to your inbox every working weekday.
• Through RSS. Subscribe to the superfeed or individual feeds by clicking on the RSS icon 
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• Through the SLW mobile apps for iPhone and Android (Updates to cease by end January 2024).
• Subscribe to the SLW LinkedIn page carries Headlines and Judgments.
• Visit the website at www.singaporelawwatch.sg.
To change your email address, open any SLW Daily Email update you have received in your Inbox.
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Click on the link (as indicated) at the bottom of the Daily Email.
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Type your new email address and complete the rest of the form. Click "Subscribe".
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RSS stands for “really simple syndication” and it is a family of web-feed formats used to distribute frequently updated content directly to your computer. To syndicate our daily news click here.
SLW does not restrict law firms or other legal organisations from streaming its RSS feeds. Just inform SLW if you wish to do so.
Submitting to SLW
If your firm is interested in contributing commentaries to SLW, please approach us at [email protected].
SLW shall be entitled at any time, at its sole and absolute discretion and without prior notice, to add to, vary, terminate, withdraw or suspend the operation of the whole or any part or feature of the SLW Wwebsite or Sservices without assigning any reason. Please refer to the Terms of Use here.
SLW lists events and publications pertaining to Continuing Legal Education held in Singapore, for free. For more information on our submissions policy, please email [email protected].
Advertise legal goods, services and events on SLW to good effect as a banner ad or sponsored link. Please contact us at [email protected] for our media kit.
Others
12. Can I feature SLW content or link to SLW content on my website?
As the copyright to most content on SLW belongs to third parties, such content may not be reproduced without their express permission. SLW is unable to give such permission. Please approach the third parties concerned. Further elaboration of terms, conditions and disclaimers is found here.
Caching and links to, and the framing of the SLW website or any of the content are prohibited, unless prior permission has been sought and obtained. Please refer to the Terms of Use here for further guidance.
If you experience any technical errors or spot mistakes in content, please write to us at [email protected].
The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the SLW website may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. SLW shall not be held liable for any losses or damages arising from these inaccuracies or errors. Please refer to the Terms of Use here.
Please write to us at [email protected].
Last updated: 16 August 2023