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This article was originally published under SMU Lexicon. Lexicon was established in 2017 by a team of students at Yong Pung How School of Law (Singapore Management University) who are passionate about keeping up with and commenting on developments in the law. It is an online platform for all SMU students to express their opinions on Singapore’s ever changing legal landscape. Lexicon also publishes the Singapore Law Journal (available in both print and online), which publishes commentaries, case notes, and/or articles on current developments and issues in all legal fields.
Consumers / Featured Articles

Benefits of the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2020 to the Consumer*

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I. Introduction This article explains how the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2020 (the “Amendment”) benefits the user in three areas: customer experience, safeguards, and transparency. Firstly, the Amendment improves customer experience in two ways: (1) deemed consent by contractual necessity eliminates the hassle of clicking multiple checkboxes to express…

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Featured Articles / Transport

Airplane Accidents – Understanding your rights under Article 17(1) and 21(1) of the Montreal Convention

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 “People who board planes are not afraid of flying. They are afraid of not flying.” – Winne Micah. I. Introduction October 29, 2018. Flight 610, Lion Air smashes into the Java Sea off Indonesia, killing all 189 souls aboard. This is swiftly followed by Flight 302, Ethiopian Airlines, which crashes in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. Again,…

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