Singapore legislation
Regulation 12A
of Legal Profession (Representation in Singapore International Commercial Court) Rules 2014
Regulation 12A
Qualifications and requirements for registration and renewal of registration
Subregulation 1
For the purposes of section 36PA(2) of the Act, an application may be made for a law expert to be registered if —
at the time the application is made, the law expert is not a foreign lawyer;
the law expert is sufficiently proficient in the English language to conduct any relevant proceedings or relevant appeal;
the law expert has not been disbarred, struck off, suspended, ordered to pay a penalty, censured or reprimanded in the capacity of a legal practitioner by whatever name called in any jurisdiction;
there is an order of the Singapore International Commercial Court or the appellate court permitting the law expert to make submissions, in any relevant proceedings under rule 3(2)(e) or in any relevant appeal from any judgment given or order made in those proceedings, on a question of foreign law on behalf of a party to those proceedings or that appeal; and
the law expert undertakes to appear, and to give advice and prepare documents, only in those proceedings or in that appeal, and solely for the purposes of making submissions on that question of foreign law.
Subregulation 2
An application may be made for the renewal of the registration of a law expert if —
the law expert has not been disbarred, struck off, suspended, ordered to pay a penalty, censured or reprimanded in the capacity of a legal practitioner by whatever name called in any jurisdiction;
there is an order of the Singapore International Commercial Court or the appellate court permitting the law expert to make submissions on a question of foreign law in, and on behalf of a party to —
any pending relevant proceedings under rule 3(2)(e); or
any pending relevant appeal from any judgment given or order made in relevant proceedings under rule 3(2)(e); and
the law expert undertakes to appear, and to give advice and prepare documents, only in those proceedings or in that appeal, and solely for the purposes of making submissions on that question of foreign law.