KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS ASIA PTE. LTD. v NPE PRINT COMMUNICATIONS PTE. LTD.
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| Court | High Court (General Division) |
|---|---|
| Decided | |
| Judge | Goh Yihan |
| Charges / claim | Contract, Commercial Transactions |
| Counsel | David Ong & Co., Withers KhattarWong LLP, Beitris Yong Pei Juan, Chua Yuet Min Matthew, Deborah Evaline Barker, Farahna Alam, Ong Lian-Yi Gregory |
Source: [2023] SGHC 144, High Court (General Division), decided — eLitigation. Updated .
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Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia Pte Ltd v NPE Print Communications Pte Ltd [2023] SGHC 144 is a reserved judgment of Goh Yihan JC in the General Division of the High Court, delivered on 17 May 2023 in Suit No 254 of 2020. Konica Minolta, the manufacturer and supplier of the industrial ink-jet digital printer Accurio Jet KM-1, sued NPE Print Communications, a commercial printing company, principally for the balance 80% of the purchase price of the KM-1, being $1,326,800. The dispute concerns a partly written and partly oral agreement for the sale of goods, breach of contract, damages, and NPE's counterclaim.
[2023] SGHC 144 explained
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS ASIA PTE. LTD. v NPE PRINT COMMUNICATIONS PTE. LTD. ([2023] SGHC 144) is a Singapore judgment decided by the High Court (General Division) on 17 May 2023. It is categorised under Contract and Commercial Transactions. It is a recent decision; within this corpus no later judgment has cited it yet. This page summarises what the reported decision covers and links the primary sources — the full judgment, the statutes it cites, and the other cases it engages with — so the decision can be read in context. It is reference information, not legal advice, and it does not state the outcome or any holding beyond what the official judgment records.
What is [2023] SGHC 144 about?
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS ASIA PTE. LTD. v NPE PRINT COMMUNICATIONS PTE. LTD. ([2023] SGHC 144) is a High Court (General Division) decision from 2023. Its published catchwords are “Contract — Remedies — Damages”, “Commercial Transactions — Sale of goods — Breach of contract”, and “Contract — Contractual terms — Partly written and partly oral agreements”, which indicate the subject matter the judgment addresses. The full reasoning and orders are in the judgment itself, linked below.
Summary
Konica Minolta sued NPE Print Communications for the balance 80% of the purchase price (about $1,326,800) of an Accurio Jet KM-1 industrial printer and for accrued print charges, while NPE counterclaimed for losses from the machine's malfunction on the basis of misrepresentation or breach of contract. The court found Konica had delivered a defective machine and was in breach, entitling NPE to damages, though Konica was entitled to some of the print charges for prints NPE successfully obtained, with quantum and costs to be addressed by further submissions.
What was Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia Pte Ltd v NPE Print Communications Pte Ltd [2023] SGHC 144 about?
Goh Yihan JC heard Konica Minolta's claim against NPE Print Communications for the balance 80% of the purchase price of an Accurio Jet KM-1 industrial printer, being $1,326,800, arising from a partly written and partly oral sale-of-goods agreement.
What sum was claimed in Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia Pte Ltd v NPE Print Communications Pte Ltd [2023] SGHC 144?
Konica Minolta claimed the balance 80% of the purchase price of the Accurio Jet KM-1 printer, amounting to $1,326,800, from NPE Print Communications, which also raised a counterclaim in the proceedings over the sale-of-goods contract.
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Read on eLitigationSource: eLitigation ([2023] SGHC 144)