Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2020
Abstract
This chapter discusses the hearing of essential and urgent court matters in the Singapore courts during the COVID-19 pandemic. On 27 march 2020, the Singapore judiciary notified courst users that remote hearings were to be implemented for certain types of hearings by means of video and telephone conferencing facilities. Court users were also provided with indicative lists of matters which might be considered essential and urgent.
Keywords
Courts, Singapore, COVID-19, pandemic, public health
Discipline
Asian Studies | Courts
Research Areas
Public Interest Law, Community and Social Justice
Publication
Law and COVID-19
Editor
Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez, Mark Findlay and Goh Yihan
First Page
235
Last Page
241
ISBN
9789811808272
Publisher
School of Law, Singapore Management University
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
LAU, Kwan Ho and XU, Daryl.
Hearing essential and urgent court matters during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020). Law and COVID-19. 235-241.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3208
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3686357