ABSTRACT
The Singapore legal system, as to be expected in a former British colony, was modelled on the English system. Its legal and administrative institutions have that background and the influence of the English common law system prevails. Of course, as litigation developed, the Singapore courts have impressed their own interpretations on the legislation. Article 3 of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore provides that Singapore shall be a sovereign republic to be known as the Republic of Singapore. Under Article 30 of the Constitution, responsibility for a governmental department or subject is assigned to a minister, a member of the Cabinet which exercises the executive authority of Singapore. The vast changes in company law in Australia since 1961 have weakened the legislative link between Singapore and Australia and, in many respects, the Singapore law has stood by comparison with the Australian reforms.
