The inaugural Society of Construction Law – National University of Singapore annual lecture was held on 14 January 2009 at the Pod at the National Library. The event was chaired by Immediate Past President of the Society, Mr Naresh Mahtani. The keynote speaker was Mr Chow Kok Fong, also a former president of the Society, who, with his customary insight, tackled the highly topical subject of “Managing Construction Contracts During Times of Economic Uncertainty” A question and answer session saw the panel of Mr Chow, Dr Philip Chan of the National University of Singapore, and Mr Mahtani, fielding questions of a distinctly financial flavour. The event closed with two presentations. The first was the award of this year’s SCL Book Prize to the Department of Building’s outstanding graduating student, Ms Lee Wei Ling. This was followed by the presentation to the Society by the publishers, Thomson, and Lexis-Nexis, of a book each. These were received by the President of the Society, Mr Mohan Pillay. The session was closed by an address by Professor Tham Kwok Wai of the National University of Singapore. All-in-all, this was an eventful and fulfilling afternoon. We look forward to next year’s lecture.

The Society would like to thank the following publishers for their kind donation of books to the Society at the SCL-NUS inaugural annual lecture:

2. LexisNexis for the gift of “Asia Pacific Construction Law Casebook - HK, Malaysia & Singapore (2007)”, by Phillip CH Chan, Asanga Gunawansa