Singapore court decisions

• A party cannot make further arguments after a decision just to fix gaps in earlier ones

  [2025] SGHC(A) 26 · Appellate Division · 31 Dec 2025Foo Diana v Woo Mui Chan · [2025] SGHC(A) 26 · Appellate Division · 31 Dec 2025 · Summary

  Police and courts

• A stay of enforcement is not a stay of proceedings, so permission to appeal was needed

  [2025] SGHC(A) 25 · Appellate Division · 15 Dec 2025Purwadi v MBF Northern Securities Sdn Bhd (in liquidation) · [2025] SGHC(A) 25 · Appellate Division · 15 Dec 2025 · Summary

  Relies on International Arbitration Act 1994, s 6

  Police and courts

• XHG v XHH

  [2025] SGHC(A) 24 · Appellate Division · 18 Nov 2025[2025] SGHC(A) 24 · Appellate Division · 18 Nov 2025

  Relies on Interpretation Act 1965, s 9A

• The president's unilateral adjournment was invalid without exceptional circumstances

  [2025] SGHC(A) 23 · Appellate Division · 11 Nov 2025Neo Tiam Ting v Singapore Vehicle Traders Association · [2025] SGHC(A) 23 · Appellate Division · 11 Nov 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Societies Act 1966, s 35

  Running a business

• Outside the child abduction law, comity does not override a child's welfare in custody

  [2025] SGHC(A) 22 · Appellate Division · 5 Nov 2025XLK v XLJ · [2025] SGHC(A) 22 · Appellate Division · 5 Nov 2025 · Summary

  Relies on International Child Abduction Act 2010

  Family

• Equal ownership of an unmarried couple's property stood on appeal

  [2025] SGHC(A) 21 · Appellate Division · 30 Oct 2025DOP v DOO · [2025] SGHC(A) 21 · Appellate Division · 30 Oct 2025 · Summary

• Runways, taxiways and aprons were structures, not plant, for capital allowances

  [2025] SGHC(A) 20 · Appellate Division · 25 Sep 2025Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Comptroller of Income Tax · [2025] SGHC(A) 20 · Appellate Division · 25 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Income Tax Act 1947, s 19A

  Money and debt

• A call on a standby letter of credit was not unconscionable and could not be stopped

  [2025] SGHC(A) 18 · Appellate Division · 12 Sep 2025DJY v DJZ and another · [2025] SGHC(A) 18 · Appellate Division · 12 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Evidence Act 1893, s 103

  Money and debt

• Only one notice of appeal should be filed against the judgments from a single trial

  [2025] SGHC(A) 19 · Appellate Division · 12 Sep 2025Shipworks Engineering Pte Ltd and another v Sembcorp Marine Integrated Yard Pte Ltd and another and other appeals · [2025] SGHC(A) 19 · Appellate Division · 12 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Police and courts

• Later conduct showed that an oral agreement to part ways in business was made

  [2025] SGHC(A) 16 · Appellate Division · 9 Sep 2025Kok Kuan Hwa v Yap Wing Sang and another appeal · [2025] SGHC(A) 16 · Appellate Division · 9 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Running a business

• Mass resignations were evidence of a conspiracy, not the unlawful acts themselves

  [2025] SGHC(A) 17 · Appellate Division · 9 Sep 2025Centricore (S) Pte Ltd and others v ATT Systems (S’pore) Pte Ltd and another · [2025] SGHC(A) 17 · Appellate Division · 9 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Running a business

• The appellate court could not hear an application to set aside earlier decisions

  [2025] SGHC(A) 14 · Appellate Division · 2 Sep 2025WJY v WJZ · [2025] SGHC(A) 14 · Appellate Division · 2 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Family Justice Act 2014, s 29B

  Police and courts

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