Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
I graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1995 and qualified as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore the following year. After practising for about six years as a litigator with a Singapore law firm, I took up postgraduate studies at University College London on a British Chevening Scholarship and was conferred an LLM in 2003. I then returned to Singapore and worked as an Assistant Director for the Singapore Academy of Law, a promotion and development agency for Singapore’s legal industry. I completed my PhD studies at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 2012. My doctoral research examined the interpretation of bills of rights from a comparative law perspective.
I taught at the School of Law, Singapore Management University, from 2008 to 2017, and continue to have research interests in administrative law, constitutional law, human rights law, media law, and cultural property and heritage law. I rejoined the Singapore Academy of Law as its Deputy Research Director from August 2017 to December 2019.
I have also been a member of the National Collection Advisory Panel of the National Heritage Board since 2013; an expert member of the International Scientific Committee on Legal, Administrative and Financial Issues (ICLAFI) of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), since 2016; and was the President of the Singapore Heritage Society between 9 September 2017 and 22 September 2023.
Supervisors: Elizabeth Wicks
I taught at the School of Law, Singapore Management University, from 2008 to 2017, and continue to have research interests in administrative law, constitutional law, human rights law, media law, and cultural property and heritage law. I rejoined the Singapore Academy of Law as its Deputy Research Director from August 2017 to December 2019.
I have also been a member of the National Collection Advisory Panel of the National Heritage Board since 2013; an expert member of the International Scientific Committee on Legal, Administrative and Financial Issues (ICLAFI) of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), since 2016; and was the President of the Singapore Heritage Society between 9 September 2017 and 22 September 2023.
Supervisors: Elizabeth Wicks
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At present, while various protections for victims of such misuse and related breaches of privacy exist, these derive from an assortment of different statutory and common law causes of action (for example, suing for intentional infliction of emotional distress, private nuisance and/or breach of confidence, or bringing claims under the Personal Data Protection Act or Protection from Harassment Act). This patchwork of laws – several of which were designed primarily to address matters other than misuse of private information – not only risks making the law more difficult for victims to navigate, it also risks some instances of serious misuse of private information not being effectively provided for and those affected finding themselves with no real recourse or remedy.
Given these shortcomings, it is submitted that a statutory tort of misuse of private information should be introduced.
(The draft bill annexed to the report was prepared by Phang Hsiao Chung, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, in his capacity as a member of the Law Reform Committee.)
The report may be cited as follows: Jack Tsen-Ta Lee & Phang Hsiao Chung; Simon Constantine (ed), Report on Civil Liability for Misuse of Private Information (Singapore: Law Reform Committee, Singapore Academy of Law, 2020) (ISBN 978-981-14-7748-5)
Information about the status of the report is available at https://www.sal.org.sg/Resources-Tools/Law-Reform/Misuse_of_Private_Information.