Singapore Case Law Database

SUPREME COURT OF SINGAPORE 20 August 2024 Case summary Transpac Investments Ltd v TIH Ltd [2024] SGHC(I) 23 Originating Application No 8 of 2023…

SUPREME COURT OF SINGAPORE 20 August 2024 Case summary Attorney-General v Phua Jill [2024] SG HC 214…

SECC Holdings Pte Ltd appealed against a District Judge's decision in a garnishee application in which it sought to attach debts said to be owed by Sinohydro Corporation Limited…

Chia Kok Kee applied to set aside a statutory demand issued by Tan Wah for outstanding costs arising from earlier court proceedings between them over a 1995 co-investment in a…

SUPREME COURT OF SINGAPORE 19 August 2024 Case summary Star Engineering Pte Ltd v Pollisum Engineering Pte Ltd and another [2024] SG CA 30…

In the General Division of the High Court, the claimant, a Cayman Islands hedge fund, applied for production of 14 categories of documents under the Rules of Court 2021 in…

Choo Yew Liang Sebastian appealed against the award of damages made in his favour as the victim of a road traffic accident on 31 December 2013, after a Deputy Registrar awarded…

Swire Shipping Pte Ltd applied to set aside an arbitral award in favour of Ace Exim Pte Ltd, contending that the tribunal made a finding on an unpleaded issue in excess of its…

SUPREME COURT OF SINGAPORE 15 August 2024 Case summary DJO v DJP and others [ 2024] SGHC(I) 24 Singapore International Commercial Court – Originating Application No 8 of 2024…

Mak-Levrion Kah Kay Natasha (alias Mai Jiaqi Natasha) sued R Shiamala for the return of $525,200 said to arise from an acknowledgment of debt covering interest-free loans…

After judgment on the merits and costs in District Court Appeal No 40 of 2023, VMax Marine Pte Ltd asked the court to vary the costs order made in the District Court trial below,…

Muhamad Zulhilmi bin Mohamad Sapari appealed against the sentence imposed by a District Judge after he pleaded guilty to two charges under the Misuse of Drugs Act and one under…

SUPREME COURT OF SINGAPORE 14 August 2024 Case summary CRH v Public Prosecutor [202 4] SGCA 29 Criminal Appeal No 5 of 2024…

This was a transferred divorce concerning ancillary matters between a wife (aged 47, a former banker, unemployed since June 2019) and a husband (aged 54, a bank desk head), who…

This decision arose from a claimant director's application to wind up Royal Amulet Pte Ltd on just and equitable grounds under s 125(1)(i) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and…

BGC Partners (Singapore) Limited and GFI Group Pte Ltd sued their former broker, Sumit Grover, who specialised in Indian Rupee non-deliverable forwards, seeking repayment of loans…

CK Tan Law Corporation applied under s 137 of the Companies Act 1967 for an extension of time to register an instrument of mortgage that had been registered in February 2020, with…

SUPREME COURT OF SINGAPORE 8 August 2024 Case summary Lo Kok Jong v Eng Beng [2024] SGCA 28 Civil Appeal No 4 of 2024…

Tan Sen Yang was charged with the murder of Satheesh Noel s/o Gobidass during an altercation at Orchard Towers, under section 300(c) of the Penal Code, with the special exceptions…

British and Malayan Trustees Limited, the sole trustee of trusts established under a 1921 Indenture of Settlement, applied for relief under the Rules of Court after discovering…

SUPREME COURT OF SINGAPORE [7 August 2024] Case summary Tan Yew Huat v Sin Joo Huat Hardware Pte Ltd and another matter [202 4] SGCA 27 Civil Appeal Nos 22 of 2023 and 3 of 2024…

SUPREME COURT OF SINGAPORE 7 August 2024 Case summary Chan Pik Sun v Wan Hoe Keet and others and another appeal [202 4] SGHC(A) 23…

Vasco Mattirolo and Zhi Wei Ko appealed against the dismissal of their application for summary judgment against Doshi Sayyam Hiteshkumar for US$2.6m, relying on a written…

This was a District Court appeal concerning a dispute between two brothers over their late mother's estate, in which a later will (the 2nd Will, executed on 7 April 2017 leaving…

These were cross-appeals by a wife (aged 69) and husband (aged 72), who married in 1981, concerning the division of matrimonial assets, including whether the wife should have…