Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
After more than a hundred years, Singapore made major reforms to its bankruptcy laws in 1995. These changes attracted considerable public interest, with the Government taking pains to emphasise that the new law was designed to strike a balance between the interest of the debtor, the creditor and society. The greatest scrutiny of the provisions, to determine whether in law and in practice the competing interests of debtors and creditors could effectively be balanced, was in respect of the discharge provisions. In this article, the writer, who was then the Official Assignee, discusses how the novel remedy of discharge by certificate of the Official Assignee was conceived, drafted and successfully implemented.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Bankruptcy Law
Publication
Singapore Academy of Law Journal
Volume
20
Issue
SI
First Page
464
Last Page
494
ISSN
0218-2009
Publisher
Singapore Academy of Law
Citation
MOHAN, S. Chandra.
Balancing Competing Interests in Bankruptcy: Discharge by Certificate of the Official Assignee in Singapore. (2008). Singapore Academy of Law Journal. 20, (SI), 464-494.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/807
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