[WEBINAR] Family Conference 2020

Professor Leong Wai Kum – Professor, SUSS School of Law, Emeritus Professor NUS Law

Professor Leong retired from NUS Law as Emeritus Professor. She is currently Professor at the SUSS School of Law, set up to educate family and criminal law practitioners, where she heads the Family Law team. A core course at the School will guide the students through an integrated study of the regulation of family relationships by substantive family law and the provision of orders and relief from disputes by the Family Justice Courts. Such integrated study encourages the students to appreciate the common underlying philosophy where substantive law inspires family members to their best behaviour while controlling their worst and the courts respond with judgments that will heal the family rift by reminding family members to aim to be their best in any challenging family disagreement.

Professor Leong has been teaching and writing on family law since 1976. She has contributed to every major family law reform exercise including making personal representations to the Select Committees of Parliament in 1979 and 1985. These reforms were central to the development of the law of division of matrimonial assets leading to the enactment of the iconic former Women’s Charter section 106 and the equally pivotal current section 112.