Singapore court decisions

• A domestic worker’s employer can be as much to blame as those who abused her Key decision

  [2026] SGHC 191 · High Court · 21 Sep 2026Kevin Chelvam v Public Prosecutor and another appeal · [2026] SGHC 191 · High Court · 21 Sep 2026 · Summary

  Relies on Penal Code 1871

  Police and courts

• Qualified privilege held for an employment reference as no malice was shown

  [2026] SGHC 189 · High Court · 18 Sep 2026Chua Kim Chuan v HSBC Life (Singapore) Pte Ltd · [2026] SGHC 189 · High Court · 18 Sep 2026 · Summary

  Relies on Limitation Act 1959

  Police and courts

• The trust deed made the trustee distribute all assets on the wife's death

  [2026] SGHC 190 · High Court · 18 Sep 2026Fereydoon Mossanen and others v Julius Baer Trust Co (Singapore) Ltd · [2026] SGHC 190 · High Court · 18 Sep 2026 · Summary

  Police and courts

• Old age and terminal illness cut a sex offender's sentence, but only in part

  [2026] SGHC 188 · High Court · 17 Sep 2026Public Prosecutor v DEK · [2026] SGHC 188 · High Court · 17 Sep 2026 · Summary

  Police and courts

• DYX v DYY and another matter

  [2026] SGHC(I) 19 · International Commercial Court · 17 Sep 2026[2026] SGHC(I) 19 · International Commercial Court · 17 Sep 2026

  Relies on International Arbitration Act 1994, s 6

  Money and debt

• SH (BVI) Ltd v Steele SVA Holdings, LLC and another

  [2026] SGHC(I) 20 · International Commercial Court · 17 Sep 2026[2026] SGHC(I) 20 · International Commercial Court · 17 Sep 2026

  Relies on Companies Act 1967, s 216

  Running a business

• A party who asked for a retrial abroad cannot later say he had no notice of it Key decision

  [2026] SGHC(A) 24 · Appellate Division · 16 Sep 2026Goh Heng Tee v Xiamen Tonghin Furniture Industries Co Pte Ltd and another matter · [2026] SGHC(A) 24 · Appellate Division · 16 Sep 2026 · Summary

  Money and debt

• A shareholder was refused permission to sue for the company as it lacked good faith

  [2026] SGHC 187 · High Court · 15 Sep 2026RedDot General Trading Pte Ltd v Sumeet Nanda and others · [2026] SGHC 187 · High Court · 15 Sep 2026 · Summary

  Relies on Companies Act 1967

  Running a business

• DWJ v DWK

  [2026] SGHC(I) 18 · International Commercial Court · 15 Sep 2026[2026] SGHC(I) 18 · International Commercial Court · 15 Sep 2026

  Relies on International Arbitration Act 1994

  Running a business

• Enforcement of an emergency arbitrator's award was set aside for lack of power

  [2026] SGHC 186 · High Court · 11 Sep 2026Zhejiang Crystal-Optech Co Ltd v Moveon Technologies Pte Ltd · [2026] SGHC 186 · High Court · 11 Sep 2026 · Summary

  Relies on International Arbitration Act 1994, s 31

  Running a business

• Probation was more suitable than reformative training for an offender in a scam case

  [2026] SGHC 183 · High Court · 10 Sep 2026Mohamed Erzan Taib Zohri v Public Prosecutor and other appeals · [2026] SGHC 183 · High Court · 10 Sep 2026 · Summary

  Relies on Computer Misuse Act 1993

  Police and courts

• Banking secrecy limits what a bank must disclose, but not what a party must Key decision

  [2026] SGHC 184 · High Court · 10 Sep 2026Re Arief Purwada (in his capacity as the administrator of the estate of Indriaty Purwada, deceased) and others and other matters (UBS AG and others, non-parties) · [2026] SGHC 184 · High Court · 10 Sep 2026 · Summary

  Relies on Banking Act 1970

  Family

← Previous pageMore decisions →