Singapore court decisions

• Properties bought by a father for his daughter were gifts, not held on trust for him

  [2025] SGHC 46 · High Court · 20 Mar 2025Kwee Seng Chio Peter v Lai Seng Kwoon (in his capacity as private trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of Kwee Hui Ling Karen) and another matter · [2025] SGHC 46 · High Court · 20 Mar 2025 · Summary

• Corrective training was lengthened on appeal for an indecent act with a child

  [2025] SGHC 45 · High Court · 18 Mar 2025Public Prosecutor v Muhammad Sufian bin Hussain · [2025] SGHC 45 · High Court · 18 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Penal Code 1871, s 354

  Police and courts

• A lawyer who let a client's lawsuit be discontinued was held to have breached duties

  [2025] SGHC 44 · High Court · 17 Mar 2025Law Society of Singapore v Chen Kok Siang Joseph and another matter · [2025] SGHC 44 · High Court · 17 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Legal Profession Act 1966

  Police and courts

• An employer's confidentiality claim succeeded in part, but no injunction was ordered

  [2025] SGHC 41 · High Court · 14 Mar 2025Hayate Partners Pte Ltd v Rajan Sunil Kumar · [2025] SGHC 41 · High Court · 14 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Running a business

• An order stopping the defendants dealing with assets was upheld on the same terms

  [2025] SGHC 43 · High Court · 14 Mar 2025Zhong Renhai and others v Goh Sock Ngee and others · [2025] SGHC 43 · High Court · 14 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Police and courts

• The court sided with the plaintiffs on disputed timesheets and administrative charges

  [2025] SGHC 40 · High Court · 13 Mar 2025Shipworks Engineering Pte Ltd and another v Sembcorp Marine Integrated Yard Pte Ltd and another and other suits · [2025] SGHC 40 · High Court · 13 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Running a business

• The articles let a general meeting remove a director by ordinary resolution

  [2025] SGHC 42 · High Court · 13 Mar 2025Ang Tien Sin v Lai Kin Sin and others · [2025] SGHC 42 · High Court · 13 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Running a business

• An early bankruptcy application was justified as the debtor's property might diminish

  [2025] SGHC 39 · High Court · 10 Mar 2025Java Asset Holding Ltd v Sin David · [2025] SGHC 39 · High Court · 10 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Money and debt

• A conviction stood although the accused said he remembered nothing of the events

  [2025] SGHC 38 · High Court · 6 Mar 2025GII v P ublic Prosecutor · [2025] SGHC 38 · High Court · 6 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Evidence Act 1893, s 136

  Police and courts

• Corroborated testimony meant the unusually convincing test was not needed

  [2025] SGHC 36 · High Court · 5 Mar 2025Public Prosecutor v CIC · [2025] SGHC 36 · High Court · 5 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Evidence Act 1893, s 157

  Police and courts

• The accused did not prove he was only a courier, so the death sentence stood

  [2025] SGHC 37 · High Court · 4 Mar 2025Public Prosecutor v Tan Jinxian · [2025] SGHC 37 · High Court · 4 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Police and courts

• An assignment of sale proceeds that worked as security gave a caveatable interest

  [2025] SGHC 35 · High Court · 28 Feb 2025Primepulse Consultancy Pte Ltd v Chan Pau Tee and another and another matter · [2025] SGHC 35 · High Court · 28 Feb 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Interpretation Act 1965

  Housing

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