UT Singapore Services Pte Ltd v Goh Thien Phong and others and another appeal

UT Singapore Services appealed against the High Court's sanction of a scheme of arrangement for Hin Leong Trading (in compulsory liquidation), challenging the classification of creditors. The key issue was whether creditors with uncertain and disputed rights could be placed in the same class as creditors with undisputed rights for voting purposes. The Court of Appeal held that the judge below erred in refusing to consider classification objections raised at the sanction hearing, but largely dismissed the appeal, allowing it only on the limited point that creditors are entitled to raise classification objections at the sanction stage.