Singapore legislation
Section 56B
Section 56B
Protection of members of Court or Appeal Board, etc.
(1)
A member of the Court or an Appeal Board, or the registrar or a deputy registrar of the Court, shall not be liable to be sued for any act done by him or her in the discharge of his or her judicial duty, whether or not within the limits of his or her jurisdiction, if he or she at the time in good faith believed himself or herself to have jurisdiction to do or order the act complained of.
(2)
An officer of the Court or an Appeal Board, or any other person expressly authorised by the Court or Appeal Board, charged with the duty of executing any writ, summons, warrant, order, notice or other mandatory process of the Court or Appeal Board (as the case may be) is not liable to be sued for the execution of or attempting to execute the writ, summons, warrant, order, notice or other mandatory process, or in respect of any damage caused to any property in effecting or attempting to effect execution, unless he or she knowingly acted in excess of the authority conferred upon him or her by the writ, summons, warrant, order, notice or other mandatory process.
(3)
The officer or other person mentioned in subsection (2) is not to be deemed to have acted knowingly in excess of his or her authority merely by reason of the existence of a dispute as to the ownership of any property seized under any writ or order of execution.
(4)
A child representative appointed to represent the interests of a child in any proceedings involving the child, or the custody and welfare of the child, is not liable to be sued for an act done by the child representative for the purposes of those proceedings, or any mediation or other alternative dispute resolution process related to those proceedings, if the act —
was done in good faith; and
did not involve any fraud or wilful misconduct.
(5)
Where an individual (being a registered medical practitioner, psychologist, counsellor, social worker or mental health professional) is appointed by the Court to examine or assess a child for the purposes of preparing expert evidence for use in any proceedings involving the custody or welfare of that child, the individual is not liable to be sued for an act done by the individual for the purposes of the examination or assessment, or the preparation of the expert evidence for use in those proceedings, if the act —
was done in good faith; and
did not involve any fraud or wilful misconduct.