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Chua Tian Chu and another v Chin Bay Ching and another [2011] SGHC 126
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[2011] SGHC 126
[2011] SGHC 126
General Division of the High Court of Singapore20 May 2011Suit No 778 of 2009
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“CAA submits that the consequence of these acts of prevention was that time for CAA’s completion of the works was set at large, relying on Chua Tian Chu and another v Chin Bay Ching and another [2011] SGHC 126. Further, Newcon’s acts of prevention extinguished its right to terminate the contract based on the delay in co”
“Further or in the alternative, it argues that the time for repayment of the Loan was “set at large” due to the prevention principle endorsed in Chua Tian Chu and another v Chin Bay Ching and another [2011] SGHC 126 (“Chua Tian Chu”).”
“in many cases (see eg, Yap Boon Keng Sonny ([385] supra) at [34]; Lim Chin San Contractors Pte Ltd v LW Infrastructure Pte Ltd [2011] 4 SLR 455; Chua Tian Chu and another v Chin Bay Ching and another [2011] SGHC 126 at [58]–[64]). An act of prevention is an event that “operates to prevent, impede or otherwise make it m”
“alidated, the right to recover actual damages subject to proof “will operate as from the ending of a reasonable time for completion”. Second, in Chua Tian Chu and another v Chin Bay Ching and another [2011] SGHC 126 at [104], the High Court stated that where liquidated damages are unavailable, “general damages may be r”
“Perhaps more pointedly to the question at hand, the High Court decision of Chua Tian Chu and another v Chin Bay Ching and another [2011] SGHC 126 (“Chua Tian Chu”) is instructive. The relevant issue there was whether the defendants were precluded from relying on the equitable remedy of time being set at large because t”
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“The definition of an act of prevention adopted in Yap Boon Keng Sonny was thereafter applied in Chua Tian Chu and another v Chin Bay Ching and another [2011] SGHC 126 (“Chua Tian Chu”) (at [62]). Andrew Ang J considered that when an employer or a purchaser had performed acts of prevention, in the absence of an extensio”
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Case No: Suit No 778 of 2009
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Court: General Division of the High Court of Singapore
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Decision Date: 2011-05-20
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