Judicial independence in Singapore is safeguarded by various constitutional provisions and legal rules, though some commentators have highlighted certain events as suggesting a lack of judicial independence.
It has even slightly relaxed provisioning requirements and rules on valuation to speed an expansion of credit.
The results suggest that expropriations of minority shareholders are more likely at firms with poor corporate governance provisions and weak takeover rules relating to mandatory bids.
The judge ruled that there had been "non-compliance" by the union with statutory provisions, and he will rule tomorrow on whether the strike ballot itself will have to be rerun.
Defaults were worked out in the light of conflicting provisions of contract law and rules put out by government agencies, says Helena Huang, a bankruptcy lawyer for Kirkland & Ellis.
The Obama administration has the responsibility of writing rules to carry out all of the law's provisions, and several of those rules are expected to be announced soon.
"Maybe we have in the Lisbon Treaty," she said, "enough provisions, enough rules and articles that will actually allow us more to morph, for instance, the euro group into something more structured, more efficient and better articulated".
Community banks and credit unions won exemptions from several of the law's toughest provisions, and some of the rules put small banks on more equal footing with big banks.
It is our view that when the bargaining parties hold their annual review of the program, we must revisit the JDA's confidentiality provisions and consider implementing stricter rules for any breach by any individual involved in the process.
