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About the project The Singapore Academy of Law’s Law Reform Committee recommended that the Civil Law Act (Chapter 43, 1999 Revised Edition) should be amended to allow a court to take into account a loss of savings or loss of inheritance in a dependency claim in the tort of negligence, thus reversing the position taken by the High Court in Lassiter Ann Masters (suing as the widow and dependant of Lassiter Henry Adolphus, deceased) v To Keng Lam (alias Toh Jeanette) (No 2) [2005] SGHC 4, [2005] 2 Singapore Law Reports [SLR] 8. The Committee was of the view that the position taken by the Lassiter case was unsatisfactory as it created a gap which benefited tortfeasors or their insurers at the expense of dependants. There was a need to bring Singapore law back in line with the more persuasive position taken by the other common law jurisdictions which have legislation expressly allowing for loss of savings or inheritance to be taken into account in a dependency claim. Project status: Completed
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Areas of law ◾ Tort law Click on the image above to view the report |