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I’ve been researching on choice of law issues in the metaverse.
Second Life is sort of a beta-metaverse, where people lived, made love and transacted virtually through avatars. Facebook’s proposed #metaverse is just an Augmented Reality (AR) enhanced version of the concept.
I stumbled on this eyebrow-raising litigation concerning Second Life.
Singapore Medical Council v Wong Him Choon [2016] SGHC 145
Significance: The Court of Three Judges reversed the decision of the Disciplinary Tribunal (DT) on appeal by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) and held that the medical doctor, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon from Raffles Hospital, had breached his ethical duties to the patient, a migrant construction worker, by issuing inadequate medical leave (MCs) in disregard of the patient’s interests and having regard instead for extraneous interests such as those of the worker’s employer.
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