This week’s blog covers SW Trustees Private Limited (in compulsory liquidation) & Anor v Teodros Ashenafi Tesemma & 5 Ors (“SW Trustees”) [2023] SGHC 273, an interesting High Court decision which discusses several aspects of civil procedure law.
Read MoreThis blog focuses on the Court of Appeal’s consideration of a Calderbank offer (made prior to the appeal being heard) on the eventual costs orders.
Read MoreIn Li Jialin & Anor v Wingcrown Investment Pte Ltd [2023] SGHC 256, the High Court addressed whether the respondent were entitled to withhold certain sums paid by the applicant following abortive attempts to purchase a property. This short blog will focus on the Court’s discussion relating to the forfeiture of deposits.
Read MoreThis week’s blog covers Gillingham James Ian v Fearless Legends Pte Ltd and others [2023] SGHCR 13, an interesting decision on the pre-action production mechanism under Order 11 Rule 11 of the Rules of Court 2021.
Read MoreThis week’s blog covers Art Ask Agency SL v Person(s) Unknown (“LXS-WL STORE”) and others [2023] SGHCR 14, an interesting decision on an enforcement order under Order 22 of the Rules of Court 2021.
Read MoreIn Chian Teck Realty Pte Ltd v SDK Consortium and another [2023] SGHC 210, a call on a performance bond was successfully restrained. But not on the grounds of unconscionability or fraud. How was the call restrained?
Read MoreCan you ever have too many documents in an adjudication? In the recent case of Home Group Ltd v MPS Housing Ltd [2023] EWHC 1946 (TCC), this issue arose (again) for consideration before the Technology and Construction Court.
Read MoreIn Interactive Digital Finance Ltd and another v Credit Suisse AG and another [2023] SGHC 198, Chua Lee Ming J in the High Court had the opportunity to decide an appeal in relation to whether the Assistant Registrar had the power to order production of the documents that were referred to in the statement of claim under the Rules of Court 2021.
Read MoreAs the saying goes, fraud unravels all. But how much does fraud actually unravel in relation to adjudication proceedings under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2004? This issue is addressed in the recent case of JP Nelson Equipment Pte Ltd v Builders Hub Pte Ltd [2023] SGHC 186.
Read MoreIn Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No 4572 v Kingsford Development Pte Ltd and others [2023] SGHCR 8, AR Desmond Chong had the opportunity to consider the nature and extent of procedural breach required to render a default judgment to be “irregularly” obtained per the test for irregularity in Mercurine Pte Ltd v Canberra Development Pte Ltd [2008] 4 SLR(R) 907 (“Mercurine”). This was in the context of the claimant’s failure to attach a notice of intention to contest or not contest to the originating claim when it was served on the defendant.
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