In this week’s blog, we look at the recent England and Wales Court of Appeal decision of DGL Project & Chartering Ltd v Gemini Ocean Shipping Co Ltd (Re “Newcastle Express”) [2022] EWCA Civ 1555 (“Newcastle Express”), and specifically, on how Males LJ addressed the principle of separability.
Read MoreIn Continental Steel Pte Ltd v Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Southeast Asia Pte Ltd and another [2022] SGHC 292, Dedar Singh Gill J was faced with a dispute between two trade rivals in the steel and construction industry in an action for defamation. We take a look at some of the key points raised.
Read MoreIn Lazarus Century Construction Pte Ltd v SLH Development Pte Ltd [2022] SGHC 283, Kwek Mean Luck J considered the nature of documentary evidence required for a party to prove that it provided a loan to another.
Read MoreIn Prem N Shamdasani v Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No 0920 (“Prem v MCST920”), Goh Yihan JC considered the interaction between s. 37(3), 37(4), 88(1) and 111 of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act 2004 (“BMSMA”), which (in gist) deals with a management corporation’s power to authorize a subsidiary proprietor’s request to effect improvements to his / her lot and remedial provisions.
Read MoreIn Emergent Engineering Pte Ltd v China Construction Realty Co Pte Ltd [2022] SGHC 276, Justice Tan Siong Thye dismissed the Respondent’s application to set aside the Adjudication Determination and the consequent Order of Court which enforced the Adjudication Determination. Among others, Tan J held that the Adjudicator’s finding that the payment claim in question was validly served was a determination on the merits which the Court was not entitled to review.
Read MoreIn this blog, we highlight some of the salient points raised in Ser Kim Koi v GTMS Construction Pte Ltd & 2 Ors [2022] SGHC(A) 34 (“SKK v GTMS”) in relation to Cl. 23 SIA Conditions, which addresses extensions of time.
Read MoreIn Atlas Equifin Pte Ltd v Electronic Cash and Payment Solutions (S) Pte Ltd (Andy Lim and others, non-parties) [2022] SGHC 258 (“Atlas Equifin”), Goh Yihan JC (“Goh JC”) held that the shareholder-contributory had standing to challenge the creditor’s winding up application and did so successfully, leading to Goh JC dismissing the winding up application.
Read MoreIn this week’s blog, we take a quick look at some of the key points raised in LJH Construction & Engineering Co Pte Ltd v Chan Bee Cheng Gracie [2022] SGHC 230, where the High Court covered a variety of important issues relating to adjudication under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2004.
Read MoreIn DSL Integrated Solution Pte Ltd v Triumph Electrical System Engineering Pte Ltd [2022] SGHC 221 (“DSL v Triumph”), the High Court addressed “back-to-back” contracts and found that a sub-sub-contractor was justified in stopping works as the sub-contractor had committed a repudiatory breach by failing to make payment.
Read MoreThe case of Youprint Productions Pte Ltd v Mak Sook Ling [2022] SGHC 212 concerns an appeal on a simple point of law: when a breach of contract is proven, but not its loss or damage, should the claim be dismissed, or should it be allowed with nominal damages awarded?
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