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• Damages for defamation were fixed far below what the plaintiff claimed

  [2025] SGHC 54 · High Court · 28 Mar 2025Foo Diana v Woo Mui Chan · [2025] SGHC 54 · High Court · 28 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Defamation Act 1957, s 1

  Police and courts

• Sentences for attempted murder and hurting a different victim ran consecutively

  [2025] SGHC 55 · High Court · 28 Mar 2025Public Prosecutor v Ong Eng Siew · [2025] SGHC 55 · High Court · 28 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Penal Code 1871, s 307

  Police and courts

• Default judgment not set aside: the defendant's delay was long and unexplained

  [2025] SGHC 47 · High Court · 21 Mar 2025Sun Yongjian and another v Goh Seng Heng · [2025] SGHC 47 · High Court · 21 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Police and courts

• Terms for trafficking and rioting ran consecutively as the offences were unrelated

  [2025] SGHC 48 · High Court · 21 Mar 2025Public Prosecutor v Ng Soon Kiat · [2025] SGHC 48 · High Court · 21 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Penal Code 1871

  Driving and traffic

• 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 challenge to a judge's notes usually should not go first to the appeal court

  [2025] SGCA 12 · Court of Appeal · 17 Mar 2025Vietnam Oil and Gas Group v Joint Stock Company (Power Machines – ZTL, LMZ, Electrosila Energomachexport) · [2025] SGCA 12 · Court of Appeal · 17 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Relies on International Arbitration Act 1994

  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 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

• An appeal was dismissed; it was an abuse of process once the dispute had been settled

  [2025] SGCA 10 · Court of Appeal · 13 Mar 2025CIX v DGN · [2025] SGCA 10 · Court of Appeal · 13 Mar 2025 · Summary

  Relies on International Arbitration Act 1994

  Police and courts

• W Power Group EOOD v Ming yang Wind Power (International) Co Ltd

  [2025] SGHC(I) 7 · International Commercial Court · 11 Mar 2025[2025] SGHC(I) 7 · International Commercial Court · 11 Mar 2025

  Police and courts

• Marketlend Pty Ltd and another v QBE Insurance (Singapore) Pte Ltd

  [2025] SGHC(I) 8 · International Commercial Court · 11 Mar 2025[2025] SGHC(I) 8 · International Commercial Court · 11 Mar 2025

  Police and courts

• 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

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