Minister K Shanmugam Sc: I took part in a dialogue organised by the National University of Singapore Society last Wednesday. There were many in-depth questions relating to family justice, the death penalty as well as legal education. todayonline/singapore/divorce-procedures-be-more-efficient-less-adversarial On the last point, I stated my hope for NUS Law School to be the best law school in Asia, and one of the best in the world. To this end, the Ministry of Law is funding close to $44 million to set up four new centres of excellence in NUS Law, namely the Centre for Law and Business, Centre for Banking and Financial Services Law, Centre for Maritime Law and Centre for Asian Legal Studies. MinLaw has said to NUS that a key reason MinLaw is providing funding, is also to help develop a strong core of Singaporean scholars and researchers who are passionate about an academic career in law. I also discussed new initiatives we hope to implement in our family justice system. ww.facebook/media/set/?set=a.685428804836986
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:00:00 +0000
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015