Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to present this 53^rd issue of our Newsletter, our last for the 2020-2021 Council year. The Annual General Meeting will be upon us soon, so members can expect to receive the usual pre-meeting communications in coming weeks.

The Society is grateful to Justin Tan for his informative piece on Diamond Glass v Zhong Kai Construction where the Court of Appeal considered the issue of winding up applications over unpaid SOPA adjudication debts, and to Jim Chessell and Darren Benger for their entertaining contributions on what went down at the Lighthouse Club Quiz Nite on 17 June.

We were also very pleased to have James Howell QC and Shourav Lahiri of Atkin Chambers speak on the complexities of Limitation Periods in Construction Disputes on 28 July 2021.

Also highly anticipated is the talk on 31 August 2021 by Shemane Chan and Ng Kim Beng of Rajah & Tann, who will cover the often inadequately addressed issue of Intellectual Property Rights generated in the course of a construction project, from tender to termination.

I am absolutely certain that there will be a lot of learning to be had from these upcoming talks and will strongly recommend them to you our members and friends.

Toh Chen Han
Immediate Past Chairperson, SCL (Singapore)