LawNet is a one-stop practice portal providing a complete suite of information and transactional solutions for the Singapore and global legal community. A service provided by the Singapore Academy of Law, LawNet comprises several modules for supporting legal research (called the Legal Workbench), due diligence, litigation and conveyancing. It is the authoritative source of legal information, with data directly provided by primary and secondary sources of law in Singapore and around the Commonwealth.

Contains the Singapore Law Reports from 2010, Singapore Law Reports (Reissue) (1965 - 2009), Judgments, Tribunal/Board Decisions of Singapore, The Heritage Law Reports and more.

Contains the Malayan Law Journal (MLJ) from 1932. The MLJ is the only local series of law reports to be published continuously since 1932, except during the war years. It includes cases from Singapore prior to full independence in 1965, as well as from the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Malayan Union and Federation of Malaya. The Malayan Law Journal currently reports judgments of the Malaysian Federal Court, Court of Appeal and High Courts; the Brunei Court of Appeal and High Court, and appeals from Brunei to the Privy Council. PDF format is available for MLJ cases from 2006 onwards.

Contains the complete archive of judgments and PDF's of the Law Reports and the Weekly Law Reports from 1865 onwards, as provided directly by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales under licence from Eastern Book Company.

Contains the Supreme Court Cases (SCC) from 1969 which provides comprehensive coverage of Indian Supreme Court case law.

This content is provided free by AustLII and is available for searching and accessing directly within Lawnet/Legal Workbench. AustLII's vast online databases include cases, legislation and selected secondary materials from all the Australian jurisdictions as well as New Zealand.

The content is provided free by Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII) and is directly searchable within LawNet/Legal Workbench. HKLII extensive legal resources include judgments and tribunal decisions dating back to 1946, ordinances and regulations including a comprehensive collection of law reform treatise.

A stable of secondary legal materials is available, including Singapore and Malaysia's leading academic legal journals, legal updates from leading Singapore and Malaysian law firms, and a variety of textbooks such as Court Practice Manuals for Civil Procedure and Sentencing Practice in the Subordinate Courts of Singapore.

Provided by the Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore, the Legal Workbench hosts Singapore's only versioned legislation database, which captures all versions of statutes, subsidiary legislation and selected Government Gazette supplements created after 1 January 1997.

A service of the Parliament of Singapore, the Singapore Parliament Reports System makes available in full-text format the official reports of debates (commonly known as Hansard) in the Legislative Assembly of the Colony and later the State of Singapore, and the present Parliament of Singapore, as well as sessional and select committee reports, from 1955.

The Practitioners' Toolkit is an application that allows users to research and access up-to-date Taxation of Supreme Court Bills of Costs. This database contains the summaries of taxed bills of costs for cases from 2004 onwards. Users can perform searches by bill number, type of bill, amount claimed, duration of trial/hearing, subject matter and more in a single integrated interface.

Due Diligence is an integrated service that allows searching across multiple databases of the Supreme Court, Subordinate Courts and/or the Accounting and Corporate Regulations Authority Singapore (ACRA) in one transaction -providing a one-stop solution to your due diligence needs. It replaces the former Litigation and BizNet modules in LawNet.
Due Diligence allows searches on the status of any action or any document filed in the Supreme Court, Subordinate Courts or with ACRA for the following:

• Execution of Judgment: Bailiff; Writs of Execution
• Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Companies Winding-up, Judicial Management
• Actions with different modes of commencements; Appeals: Adm/Writs of Summons/OS/OP/ OM; CA
• Probate
• Powers of Attorney
• Information on Companies and Businesses registered in Singapore: (Credit Checks, Financial Information, People Profile Information; and Bankruptcy Search)

Search multiple sources on integrated IP information, trademark decisions and patents. (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore)

EFS is the world's first nationwide paperless litigation system.
It provides: Electronic Filing, Electronic Extract, Electronic Service of Documents and Electronic Information Searches.

eLitigation is the new enhanced version of EFS. It is the Singapore Judiciary's next milestone in leveraging on new modern technologies to provide a more efficient and cost-effective platform for the conduct of e-litigation.

Prepare and submit legal requisitions electronically to multiple government agencies and receive replies. (InteReq).

Search info on owners, properties, encumbrances, instruments and caveats on the official land and titles registration system. (Singapore Land Authority)

Information on the award of damages in defamation cases from 1959 - 2002. Please be informed that there are no further updates to this database.

Database on damages awarded at trial or assessment of damages from 1990 - 2004. Please be informed that there are no further updates to this database.

CaseWatch allows the proactive monitoring of legal actions involving any company or individual in the Supreme Court.

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