The latest April issue of the Civil Litigation Update examines how the courts have applied or considered O 3 r 2(2) of the Rules of Court 2021 since the Rules’ introduction three years ago.
The court ordered The WatchFund to fulfil its contractual obligations by repurchasing luxury watches for the $2.5 million it had offered the investors.
Case has many complexities due to different circumstances of each affected family: Withers KhattarWong lawyers.
Called Pair Search, the website search.pair.gov.sg is powered by a large language model (LLM) – the same technology behind ChatGPT – and also lets users sift through case judgments from the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Civil Procedure — Appeals ; Land — Sale of land
This note analyses the recent decision of the UK Supreme Court in Potter v Canada Square Operations Ltd [2023] 3 WLR 963 and argues that, in the context of statutory limitation periods, a literal approach to statutory interpretation may help clarify and simplify the law on limitations. This, however, means that amendments will have to be made to the Singapore Limitation Act 1959 and in this vein, this note suggests how this may be done.
Civil Procedure — Discovery of documents
At least two groups of customers are seeking advice over class-action lawsuits after more than 7,000 cord-blood units found to be damaged or at risk of being adversely affected.
The bitter fight was sparked after one of them cried foul for being short-changed, even though he got over $45 million.
Judicial Commissioner dismisses minority owners' objections to the sale, finds no evidence that transaction lacks good faith.
Dispute concerns sale and purchase of S$5.1m condo unit at Lloyd Sixty-Five which he was granted an option to purchase and had made payments amounting to S$1.5m.
Civil Procedure — Appeals ; Civil Procedure — Service
Credit And Security — Money and moneylenders
Civil Procedure — Pleadings ; Civil Procedure — Appeals
Civil Procedure — Pleadings
Insolvency Law — Bankruptcy
In Lutfi Salim bin Talib and another v British and Malayan Trustees Ltd [2024] SGHC 85, the High Court held that the court should not go behind filed affidavits for the purposes of deciding an application under O 11 r 3(1) of the Rules of Court 2021, unless there are very strong reasons to do so.
Civil Procedure — Disclosure of documents