Imagine the following scenario: A Singaporean mediator is asked to mediate a professional negligence dispute. The plaintiff is based in Indonesia, the defendant accounting firm is in the Netherlands, and the defendant's insurer has its headquarters in the United States. All agree to attend mediation in Singapore. The preliminary discussions and meetings, however, take place via email and video-conference with all parties in their home countries. The mediation occurs and the parties reach a settlement, which the parties' legal representatives draft into contractual form.
Imagine the following scenario: A Singaporean mediator is asked to mediate a professional negligence dispute. The plaintiff is based in Indonesia, the defendant accounting firm is in the Netherlands, and the defendant's insurer has its headquarters in the United States. All agree to attend mediation in Singapore. The preliminary discussions and meetings, however, take place via email and video-conference with all parties in their home countries. The mediation occurs and the parties reach a settlement, which the parties' legal representatives draft into contractual form.
This course aims to provide students with the following learning opportunities:
- Understanding basic features of major digital technologies;
- Understanding emerging and cross-cutting law and policy issues surrounding the uses
of such technologies and of data in international trade;
- Analysis of cutting-edge law and policy materials and issues on such uses;
- Promotion of self-learning, group learning and further learning after the course; and
- Exercising creativity in designing useful recommendations.
The course will allow students to develop skills to present and analyze topical issues, prepare reports with their research findings and exercise creativity in generating useful recommendations (in the form of law, policy and/or technology solutions) to deal with real problems.
The course will allow students to develop skills to present and analyze topical issues, prepare reports with their research findings and exercise creativity in generating useful recommendations (in the form of law, policy and/or technology solutions) to deal with real problems.
The course will allow students to develop skills to present and analyze topical issues, prepare reports with their research findings and exercise creativity in generating useful recommendations (in the form of law, policy and/or technology solutions) to deal with real problems.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Understand the importance of equal access to justice and some of the common issues faced by both individuals with legal or justiciable problems and the organisations that assist them.
• Evaluate and compare practices and solutions from other jurisdictions or service industries to generate new ideas for improving access to legal services or justice in Singapore.
• Solve specific real-world access to justice problems through iterative design, prototyping and testing of digital applications in a collaborative team setting.
Depending on the type of application chosen for the project work, students will learn one or more of the following areas:
- Document assembly and expert systems;
- Chatbots;
- Machine learning and natural language processing;
- Data analysis and visualisation;
- Cloud computing services;
- Search and information retrieval.
Depending on the type of application chosen for the project work, students will learn one or more of the following areas:
- Document assembly and expert systems;
- Chatbots;
- Machine learning and natural language processing;
- Data analysis and visualisation;
- Cloud computing services;
- Search and information retrieval.
By the end of the course, students should:
1. have a sound knowledge of the law and policies relating mental capacity and succession, and the various legal instruments such as deputyship, lasting power of attorney and Wills;
2. be able to present legal information in a creative way that can be easily understood by the layman which is still accurate and precise;
3. understand the legal needs of litigants-in-person, caregivers and the general public in this area;
4. have explored ways to enhance the ability of litigants-in-person, caregivers and the general public to help
themselves, for example through automated form filling and filing of documents.
