Principles and Practice of Securities Regulations in Singapore, 3rd Edition [eBook]

The third edition discusses the changes since the last edition: (1) the Penny Stock crash; (2) changes to the Corporate Governance Code 2012; (3) the SF (Amendment) Acts of 2012 and 2017 and other proposed changes to the market abuse regime; (4) dual class shares and other changes from the Companies (Amendment) Act 2014; (5) overseas developments such as the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act; (6) changes to the SGX listing and business rules.

Publication Date: February 2017

Publisher: LexisNexis

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SG$ 215.82
ISBN: 9789814770453
This third edition covers legislative developments as well as changes and developments to the securities industry, SGX-ST Listing Manual and the SGX-ST Business Rules. Substantive changes have been introduced by the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Acts of 2012 and 2017 since the second edition of this book was published in 2011. Major events since then include the penny stock crash, problems with land-banking and alternative investments and rule changes in that regard. This book also discusses a number of significant Singapore cases which referred to the last edition of the book. These include: - Mahdavan Peter v Public Prosecutor [2012] SGHC 153; Lew Chee Fai Kevin v MAS [2012] SGCA 12 and Tan Chong Koay v MAS [2011] SGCA 36. Recent decisions like TMT Asia Ltd v BHP Billiton Marketing AG (Singapore Branch [2015] SGHC 21 and Vintage Bullion DMCC v Chan Fook Yuen [2016] SGCA 49 are also reviewed.

Chapter 1: The Rise of Constitutionalism and Constitutional Law

Chapter 2: The Constitutional Development of Malaysia and Singapore

Chapter 3: Supremacy of the Constitution and Constitutional Amendments

Chapter 4: Special Powers Against Subversion and Emergency Powers

Chapter 5: The Legislature

Chapter 6: The Executive

Chapter 7: The Attorney-General

Chapter 8: The Public Service

Chapter 9: The Judiciary

Chapter 10: Constitutional Interpretation

Chapter 11: Fundamental Liberties and Human Rights: An Introduction

Chapter 12: Protection of Life and Liberty

Chapter 13: Rights of the Accused Person

Chapter 14: Protection Against Retrospective Criminal Laws

Chapter 15: Protection Against Double Jeopardy

Chapter 16: The Right to Equality and Equal Protection

Chapter 17:Freedom of Speech, Assembly and Association

Chapter 18: Right to Property

Chapter 19: Freedom of Religion

Chapter 20: Citizenship

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