Singapore’s Second Minister for Law believes an integrated platform using the Metaverse will make the dispute resolution process additional convenient and efficient. 


Legal marriage proceedings, court case disputes and government services could sooner or later be offered on the Metaverse, in line with a Singaporean executive director.  

Speaking at the TechLaw Fest 2022 on July 20, Singapore’s Second Minister for Law Edwin Tong argued even extremely customized, intimate events like the solemnisation of marriages have taken place on-line in the Metaverse: 

“It would not be unthinkable that, besides registration of marriages, other government services can soon be accessed online via the Metaverse.”

On the subject of legal services within the Metaverse, the Minister additional that there's “no reason why constant can not be in dire straits legal services.” 

“The pandemic has already shown United States that even dispute resolution — once seen to be a physical, high-touch method [...] can even be held virtually entirely on-line.” 

Tong gave the instance that a legal dispute involving an accident on a construction website for example can be viewed in 3 dimensions via a “single virtual platform” victimisation increased reality (AR) technology: 

“You can put yourself into the actual tunnel or the oil containment facility to look at the construction dispute from the perspective of an augmented reality, representing the actual space.”

Tong stated that the addition of such technology wouldn't preclude ancient offline hearings from going down. He noted that “there will invariably be a hybrid element:” 

“I believe such an integrated platform will make the whole dispute resolution process more convenient, efficient, and it keeps pace with how the rest of the world is developing.”

Earlier this year, metaverse platform Decentraland hosted its initial wedding on its Metaverse with a virtual crowd of 2,000 guests and firm Rose Law cluster to lawfully formalize the wedding. 

The group’s founder and president, Jordan Rose, claims it had been the first-ever wedding hosted on any blockchain-based Metaverse.

( Brian Newar, Cointelegraph, 2022 )